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  • adjective That has no inertia, or acts without the use of inertia

Etymologies

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inertia +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The coolest scene is when the battleship fires a shell at the invader ship (the cannon is wrapped with inertialess coils).

    May 2009 2009

  • The coolest scene is when the battleship fires a shell at the invader ship (the cannon is wrapped with inertialess coils).

    Can You Name This Story? (Part 15) 2009

  • Those inertialess ships I'm sure an inertialess ship wouldn't behave like those did.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • In House of Suns, I played with the idea of dispensing with airlocks and suits entirely, by inventing (with the aid of inertialess fields) something called "whisking": what if you could be shot between two ships sufficiently quickly that you were only exposed to vacuum for a few milliseconds?

    MIND MELD: Worldbuilding 2008

  • However, Smith describes everything that is not inertialess as “inert”, which is not what that word means.

    Reading Challenge #6 – Second Stage Lensman, EE ‘Doc’ Smith « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

  • All use an “inertialess” space drive for interstellar, and inter-galactic, travel.

    Reading Challenge #6 – Second Stage Lensman, EE ‘Doc’ Smith « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

  • Whether it was a scanner or missile or inertialess pro-jectile that had been tracking them, it had changed course in pursuit of their clever decoy.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • My sister's furious shouts continued as I hurried to the bank of ordinary inertialess elevators that serve Rampart Tower and descended to the underground thoroughfare called the Path.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • A moment later, the alien's drive proved itself far closer to being truly inertialess than any comparable early Federation starship's had ever been.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • A moment later, the alien's drive proved itself far closer to being truly inertialess than any comparable early Federation starship's had ever been.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

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