inertial mass
English
Noun
inertial mass (countable and uncountable, plural inertial masses)
- (physics) The mass of an object measured as its resistance to being accelerated by an applied force; it is equal to its gravitational mass.
Synonyms
- passive gravitational mass (in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation)
Hypernyms
- mass
Coordinate terms
- gravitational mass
- passive gravitational mass
- active gravitational mass
- weight
Anagrams
- antirealisms