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Relating to a body’s resistance to changes in motion or to measurements based on that behavior.
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- inertial navigation
- inertial reference frame
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The ship relied on inertial navigation while its antennas were folded.
The experiment used an approximately inertial reference frame.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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