Usually means: Resistance to change in motion.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. inertia: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inertia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inertia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inertia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inertia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inertia: Wordnik
  7. inertia: Wiktionary
  8. inertia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inertia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inertia: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. inertia: Dictionary.com
  12. inertia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. inertia: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inertia (DC Comics), Inertia (Derek Sherinian album), Inertia (Marvel Comics), Inertia (The Exies album), Inertia (anxiety), Inertia (comics), Inertia (disambiguation), Inertia (short story), Inertia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inertia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inertia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inertia: Rhymezone
  18. Inertia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inertia: Free Dictionary
  20. inertia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inertia: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. inertia: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. inertia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  24. inertia: Wordnik
  25. Inertia: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. inertia: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inertia: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. inertia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. inertia: Medical dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Inertia: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Inertia: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  7. GLOSSARY OF ORDINATION-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  8. INERTIA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inertia: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inertia: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
noun:  (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
noun:  (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

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