mass number

English

Noun

mass number (plural mass numbers)

1. (physics) The total number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. Symbol: A

Related terms

• atomic number
• atomic weight

Translations

number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 質量數 (zh), 质量数 (zh) (zhìliàngshù)

• Danish: nukleontal n
• Finnish: massaluku (fi)
• Greek: μαζικός αριθμός (el) n pl (mazikós arithmós)
• Indonesian: nomor massa
• Italian: numero di massa (it) m

• Latvian: masas skaitlis m
• Maori: tau karihi
• Russian: массовое число́ n (massovoje čisló)
• Swedish: masstal (sv) n
• Vietnamese: số khối (vi)