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  • adjective physics Describing an accelerating frame of reference in which Newton's laws of motion do not apply

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Examples

  • It’s just that they only exist in noninertial reference frames.

    Matthew Yglesias » Interracial Dating Versus Heliocentrism 2007

  • “That way, we’ll be able to measure any noninertial resistance to the shuttlepod’s motion, so it’ll double as a measurement of the density of space out there.”

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • “That way, we’ll be able to measure any noninertial resistance to the shuttlepod’s motion, so it’ll double as a measurement of the density of space out there.”

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • “That way, we’ll be able to measure any noninertial resistance to the shuttlepod’s motion, so it’ll double as a measurement of the density of space out there.”

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

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