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CORIOLIS FORCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("Coriolis force" is a kind of...):
force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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