About The Word Inertia
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Inertia
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What's The Definition Of Inertia?
[n] a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
[n] (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force Synonyms | Synonyms for Inertia: inactiveness | inactivity Related Terms | Find terms related to Inertia: a wise passiveness | abeyance | apathy | catalepsy | catatonia | cautiousness | circumspection | contemplation | contemplative life | creeping | deadliness | deathliness | deliberateness | deliberation | dilatoriness | do-nothing policy | do-nothingism | do-nothingness | dormancy | drawl | dullness | entropy | ergophobia | faineancy | faineantise | firmness | foot-dragging | hibernation | hoboism | idleness | immobility | immobilization | immovability | immovableness | inaction | inactiveness | inactivity | indifference | indolence | inertness | inexertion | inextricability | inflexibility | irremovability | just being | laggardness | laissez-aller | laissez-faire | laissez-faireism | languor | lassitude | latency | laziness | leisureliness | lentitude | lentor | listlessness | lotus-eating | lull | meditation | mere existence | mere tropism | motionlessness | neutralism | neutrality | neutralness | noninvolvement | nonparticipation | nonresistance | nonviolence | nonviolent resistance | pacifism | paralysis | passive resistance | passive self-annihilation | passiveness | passivism | passivity | pokiness | policy | procrastination | quiescence | quietism | reluctance | remissness | rigidity | shiftlessness | slackness | sloth | slothfulness | slowness | sluggardy | sluggishness | solidity | spring fever | stagnancy | stagnation | standpattism | stasis | suspense | suspension | tentativeness | torpor | underactivity | unmovability | unyieldingness | vagrancy | vegetation | vis inertiae | vita contemplativa | waiting game | watching and waiting See Also | indolence | languor | laziness | lethargy | mechanical phenomenon | moment of inertia | passiveness | passivity | phlegm | restfulness | sluggishness | trait Inertia In Webster's Dictionary \In*er"ti*a\, n. [L., idleness, fr. iners idle. See
{Inert}.]
1. (Physics) That property of matter by which it tends when
at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in
motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless
acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called {vis
inerti[ae]}.
2. Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action;
want of energy; sluggishness.
Men . . . have immense irresolution and inertia.
--Carlyle.
3. (Med.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially
of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have
nearly or wholly ceased.
{Center of inertia}. (Mech.) See under {Center}.
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