CORIOLIS FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coriolis force mean? 

• CORIOLIS FORCE (noun)
  The noun CORIOLIS FORCE has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: CORIOLIS FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORIOLIS FORCE (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)