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ANGULAR MOMENTUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
Example:
angular momentum makes the world go round
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("angular momentum" is a kind of...):
momentum (the product of a body's mass and its velocity)