MOMENT OF INERTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moment of inertia mean? 

• MOMENT OF INERTIA (noun)
  The noun MOMENT OF INERTIA has 1 sense:

1. the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration

  Familiarity information: MOMENT OF INERTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOMENT OF INERTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("moment of inertia" is a kind of...):

inertia ((physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force)

moment (a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force))