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  • adjective Not accelerated.

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un- +‎ accelerated

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Examples

  • The Austrian Lloyd's "unaccelerated" steamers are not too active in their movements, being wont to travel at purely "economical speed," and so we were given an excellent view of some of the Ionian Islands, steaming through the Ithaca channel, with the snow-tipped peak of Cephalonia close on our starboard hand.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • Within special relativity, the Poincare group provides the group of all possible transformations between those reference frames which are unaccelerated, and therefore free from the influence of forces.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Silver's unaccelerated model, and mine, both estimate that a referendum to pass same-sex marriage would barely fail; but in 2013, it would barely pass.

    Running the numbers on same-sex marriage amendment ballots | Harry J Enten 2012

  • In relativity, however, a straight line unaccelerated motion corresponds to the longest time.

    Unwinding Time Sean Carroll 2011

  • So if a galaxy is unaccelerated in the left hand distribution, it is also unaccelerated in the right hand distibution.

    The Hole Argument Norton, John D. 2008

  • His assumption, which defined what is usually called standard synchrony, can be described in terms of the following idealized thought experiment, where the spatial locations A and B are fixed locations in some particular, but arbitrary, inertial (i.e., unaccelerated) frame of reference: Let a light ray, traveling in vacuum, leave A at time t1 (as measured by a clock at rest there), and arrive at B coincident with the event E at B.

    Conventionality of Simultaneity Janis, Allen 2006

  • Inertial frames are actually a subset of all possible global frames; in particular, they are the global frames in which free (unaccelerated) particles appear to move on straight lines.

    Does the Earth move around the Sun? Sean 2005

  • He showed that an observer O* who can maintain a sufficient increase in his acceleration will find that only a finite amount of proper time elapses along his world-line in the course of the complete history of the universe, while other unaccelerated observers would find an infinite proper time elapsing on theirs.

    Supertasks Laraudogoitia, Jon Pérez 2004

  • For in a system of orbiting bodies, only their common center of gravity will be unaccelerated, and by Corollary V, the motions of the bodies in the system will be the same, whether its center of gravity is at rest or in uniform rectilinear motion.

    Space and Time: Inertial Frames DiSalle, Robert 2002

  • We first recall, according to what we said in Section IV, that the square of the space-time interval between two events for an unaccelerated observer in empty space is d2-c2t2, and we have Euclidean space.

    COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

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