Noun

Singular mast

Plural masts

mast (plural masts)

1. A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for examples, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial.

Derived terms

• foremast
• mainmast
• mizzenmast

Related terms

• boom
• crow's nest
• flagpole
• spar
• top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop
• tower

Mast

Mast may refer to:

• Mast (botany), the edible seed and fruit produced by trees or shrubs that wildlife species will consume
• Mast cell, involved in the allergy response
• Mast (Sufism), in India, Pakistan, and Iran a type of religious intoxication
• Mast (film) is a 1999 Indian movie by Ram Gopal Verma
• Mast (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language triliteral
• Mast (naval), in naval tradition, a non-judicial disciplinary hearing
• Mast (sailing), a pole which holds a sail on sailing ships and boats
• Mast year, a year in which vegetation produces a significant abundance of fruit
• Radio masts and towers, poles or lattice towers which carry antennas/aerials
• Radar masts, typically on naval vessels, but also vehicles such as the 9K33 Osa.
• The primary support for a helicopter rotor
• The main vertical structure on a Forklift truck, which carries the mechanism for raising and lowering the load.

Acronyms include:

• Maritime Systems and Technology Global Conference and trade-show
• Marine Science and Technology Programme of the EU
• Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment in the UK
• Military anti-shock trousers, a medical device used to counteract severe blood loss
• Marine Academy of Science and Technology, a career academy located in Sandy Hook, New Jersey
• Municipal Ambulance Services Trust, an EMS provider in Kansas City, Missouri
• Multi-Application Survivable Tether, an experimental space mission
• Mutual Aid Standard Tactics, an alternative name for Public Order Training, undertaken by British police officers
• Michigan Alcohol Screening Test, a test for Alcoholism
• Multimission Archive at STScI, a NASA astronomical data archive
• Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing Laboratory, an earthquake research simulation facility at the University of Minnesota, a part of NEES

People include:

• Austin Mast, botanist
• Rick Mast, former NASCAR driver