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  • adverb In an inertial manner
  • adverb By means of inertia (or inertial forces)

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Examples

  • In Minkowski geometry the world lines of inertially moving bodies maximize the proper time elapsed between two events.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • Early problems with mounting experiments and isolating them from the ISS inertially have improved dramatically.

    Bolden: There is No "Plan B" In Development | Universe Today 2010

  • The world lines of the inertially moving bodies are the geodesics of Minkowskian spacetime.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • So they either avoid the issue by slipping inertially into a complacency they know, deep down, to be false; or they become scrupulous, obsessive and pharisaical, like physicians who either can't see the need to heal themselves or, if they can see the need, can't do the deed because their own dire self-diagnoses spook them out.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

  • So they either avoid the issue by slipping inertially into a complacency they know, deep down, to be false; or they become scrupulous, obsessive and pharisaical, like physicians who either can't see the need to heal themselves or, if they can see the need, can't do the deed because their own dire self-diagnoses spook them out.

    Pillars and posts Mike L 2007

  • How could a solar flare affect a inertially stable body as the earth?

    Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006

  • It is likely that the onset of the Little Ice Age in the higher latitudes of the North Atlantic Basin represents an inertially-related nonlinear transition between climatic regimes.

    Road Map #3 « Climate Audit 2006

  • While you're at it, people in my family prefer "inertially challenged" to "obese."

    replay 25 cents 2004

  • It is inertially guided and has a very small radar cross-section.

    Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

  • Millions of collapsed lives inertially trained on me!

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

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