inertia : Idioms & Phrases

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Center of inertia

  • (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body or system of bodies.
Webster 1913

Moment of inertia

  • noun the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration
WordNet
  • of a rotating body, the sum of the mass of each particle of matter of the body into the square of its distance from the axis of rotation; called also moment of rotation and moment of the mass.
Webster 1913