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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An apparent force, proportional to a body's mass, that appears to affect the body within a noninertial frame but is absent from the point of view of an inertial frame. Centrifugal forces and Coriolis forces are inertial forces.
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