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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to inertia; of the nature of inertia.

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  • adjective Of, relating to, or depending on inertia.

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  • adjective of or relating to inertia

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Examples

  • (Force) = (inertial mass) × (acceleration), where the “inertial mass” is a characteristic constant of the accelerated body.

    Chapter 19. The Gravitational Field 1920

  • In the GRT/Machian view, (QM also takes a different position on this question), the property we call inertial mass comes about from the interaction of the cosmological gravinertial (G/I) field with the atoms & ions of the local mass.

    Next Big Future 2009

  • An object moving along the curved spacetime manifold isn’t ‘moving under a force’, but rather, it is in inertial motion along a curved manifold.

    “Test of relativistic gravity for propulsion at the Large Hadron Collider” 2009

  • An object moving along the curved spacetime manifold isn’t ‘moving under a force’, but rather, it is in inertial motion along a curved manifold.

    Objections to Kaku and Liu’s “How to Time Travel?” 2009

  • An object moving along the curved spacetime manifold isn’t ‘moving under a force’, but rather, it is in inertial motion along a curved manifold.

    Bad Language: Metric vs Metric Tensor vs Matrix Form vs Line Element 2009

  • For now, we’ll stick to physical situations where the observers are in inertial reference frames.

    Relativity: Newtonian relativity « Skulls in the Stars 2008

  • While we encourage you to debate this in online forums, because such chatter translates into merchandise sales via some mechanism we don't fully understand, we are obliged to caution you that most people you encounter will tune you out for the rest of your life once you use the phrase inertial compensators."

    Alt Text: A Sober Warning About Indiana Jones' Fedora 2008

  • While we encourage you to debate this in online forums, because such chatter translates into merchandise sales via some mechanism we don't fully understand, we are obliged to caution you that most people you encounter will tune you out for the rest of your life once you use the phrase inertial compensators."

    A Sober Warning About Indiana Jones' Fedora 2008

  • In 1967 they became intrigued by a revolutionary auto-loader design from engineer Bruno Civolani called the inertial release locking system.

    Inside the Benelli Shotgun Factory in Urbino, Italy 2009

  • The Bussard fusion design, also known as inertial electrostatic confinement or Polywell fusion, is radically different from the multibillion-dollar mainstream approach to the fusion challenge.

    Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008

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