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INERTIAL MASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("inertial mass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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