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massed, ppl. a.|mæst|
[f. mass v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Gathered into a mass. Also with up. massed entry: see quot. 1964.
1881‘Mark Twain’ Prince & Pauper ix. 84 The massed world on the river burst into a mighty roar of welcome. 1884J. Parker Apost. Life III. 315 Do not ask for proofs in words and paragraphs and massed-up sentences. 1885W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 259 The breeze Rustles their higher leaves over a tower Green with massed ivy. 1896Daily News 21 May 5/1 Thirty massed regimental orchestras. 1955W. W. Greg Shakes. First Folio v. 157 In The Winter's Tale..there are massed entries in all but two scenes, but some individual entries are repeated later on. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. v. i. 137 A massed entry is the notation at the start of a scene of the entrance in a group of all the characters, although some will make their entrances later at different points in the scene.
2. In reference to carved or written inscriptions, having the words arranged to form a solid column of lettering.
1906A. E. R. Gill in E. Johnston Writing & Illuminating xvii. 392 In that space set out the Inscription, either ‘Massed’ or ‘Symmetrical’. 1940G. Hewitt Lettering xvi. 163 Italics..are not often successful when massed.
3. massed practice, training, trials Psychol., a method of conditioning or training in which practice is concentrated with hardly any rest between repetitions.
1938Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. XX. 201 The method of distributed practice should, therefore, yield relatively less accumulated inhibition than the method of massed practice. 1940Hilgard & Marquis Conditioning & Learning vi. 148 Spaced practice favors conditioning over massed practice. 1949B. J. Underwood Exper. Psychol. xi. 366 Several studies have shown that conditioning takes place more rapidly by distributed than by massed trials. Ibid. 631 Massed training, training in which trials are given in rapid succession with little if any time intervening between successive units of work. 1953C. E. Osgood Method & Theory Exper. Psychol. iii. xii. 504 The empirical law that ‘distributed practice is superior to massed practice’ has been found to hold under nearly all conditions. 1960H. J. Eysenck Behaviour Therapy & Neuroses i. 17 The extinction of 4 tics in a female patient by..repeated voluntary repetition of the tic by massed practice. 1969W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry (ed. 3) 186 The optimal technique was massed practice..followed by prolonged rest to permit the dissipation of reactive inhibition. |