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inertia

/in-ur-shuh, ih-nur-/US // ɪnˈɜr ʃə, ɪˈnɜr- //UK // (ɪnˈɜːʃə, -ʃɪə) //

惯性,惯性思维,惰性,惯性力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
    • : Physics. the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.an analogous property of a force: electric inertia.
    • : Medicine/Medical. lack of activity, especially as applied to a uterus during childbirth when its contractions have decreased or stopped.

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Examples

  • That’s partly a product of inertia, with many advertisers simply accustomed to speaking the language of the GRP.

  • Moving the weight away from the center of gravity gives the club a higher moment of inertia, which means it’s less likely to twist as it hits the ball and send your shot rolling in the wrong direction.

  • According to Yagley, the Supersport-35 has a moment of inertia measuring roughly 5,000 grams per centimeter squared, which is roughly what you might expect from a high-end driver.

  • Those included observations of the sample collection chamber using onboard cameras, as well as a spin maneuver scheduled for Saturday that would approximate the sample’s mass through moment-of-inertia measurements.

  • “It feels like inertia, and the inertia is stunning,” Feigenholtz said after the hearing.

  • Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.

  • The same inertia and restlessness is setting in behind the scenes as well.

  • Much of the surface of Mars is covered in fine sand and dust, both of which have low thermal inertia.

  • That measure is known as thermal inertia, and it provides information far beyond what we can get from visible light alone.

  • However, exposed rock and larger sand grains have higher thermal inertia, so they glow more brightly.

  • But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

  • Owing to its inertia, no heavy bellows weight can be set into motion rapidly.

  • Owing to its inertia, it would thus tend continually to lag behind the particles of matter about it.

  • The observations are difficult, and the inertia of the instrument is liable to cause error, but much care was taken.

  • You have no idea how the inertia of such a character makes itself felt.