Inertia is an important governing law.
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Inertia
//ɪnˈɝ.ʃə//
Synonyms for "inertia" (128 found)
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88 translations across 42 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- inerci noun (in physics)
Arabic
2 entries- عَطَالَة noun (in physics)
- عَطَالَة noun (unwillingness to take action)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ətalət noun (in physics)
Bulgarian
3 entries- вялост noun (unwillingness to take action)
- инерция noun (in physics)
- мудност noun (unwillingness to take action)
Catalan
2 entries- inèrcia noun (in physics)
- inèrcia noun (unwillingness to take action)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 慣性 /惯性 noun (in physics)
Czech
1 entries- setrvačnost noun (in physics)
Dutch
3 entries- daadloosheid noun (unwillingness to take action)
- inertie noun (in physics)
- traagheid noun (in physics)
Esperanto
3 entries- inerteca forto noun (in physics)
- inerteco noun (in physics)
- inertforto noun (in physics)
Estonian
4 entries- inerts noun (in physics)
- inertsus noun (in physics)
- loidus noun (unwillingness to take action)
- tegevusetus noun (unwillingness to take action)
Finnish
4 entries- hitaus noun (in physics)
- inertia noun (in physics)
- inertia noun (in medicine)
- jatkavuus noun (in physics)
French
1 entries- inertie noun (in physics)
German
4 entries- Beharrung noun (in physics)
- Beharrungsvermögen noun (in physics)
- Reglosigkeit noun (in medicine)
- Schwerfälligkeit noun (unwillingness to take action)
Greek
1 entries- αδράνεια noun (in physics)
Hawaiian
1 entries- ehuō noun (in physics)
Hindi
2 entries- अक्रियता noun (in physics)
- निष्क्रियता noun (unwillingness to take action)
Hungarian
2 entries- tehetetlenség noun (in physics)
- tétlenség noun (unwillingness to take action)
Irish
2 entries- spadántacht noun (unwillingness to take action)
- táimhe noun (in physics)
Italian
2 entries- inerzia noun (in physics)
- inerzia noun (unwillingness to take action)
Japanese
2 entries- 惰性 noun (unwillingness to take action)
- 慣性 noun (in physics)
Kazakh
1 entries- инерция noun (in physics)
Khmer
1 entries- និចលភាព noun (in physics)
Latvian
1 entries- inerce noun (in physics)
Malay
1 entries- inersia noun (in physics)
Malayalam
1 entries- ജഡത്വം noun (in physics)
Māori
2 entries- tūpuku noun (in physics)
- whakapahoho noun (in medicine)
Norwegian
2 entries- treghet noun (in physics)
- treighet noun (in physics)
Polish
4 entries- bezwładność noun (in physics)
- bezwładność noun (unwillingness to take action)
- inercja noun (in physics)
- inercja noun (unwillingness to take action)
Portuguese
2 entries- inércia noun (in physics)
- inércia noun (unwillingness to take action)
Romanian
1 entries- inerție noun (in physics)
Russian
3 entries- вя́лость noun (unwillingness to take action)
- ине́ртность noun (unwillingness to take action)
- ине́рция noun (in physics)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- do-mhùthadh noun (in physics)
- do-mhùthadh noun (unwillingness to take action)
- leisg noun (unwillingness to take action)
Spanish
2 entries- inercia noun (in physics)
- inercia noun (unwillingness to take action)
Swedish
2 entries- tröghet noun (in physics)
- tröghet noun (unwillingness to take action)
Tagalog
1 entries- tigal noun (in physics)
Tamil
2 entries- சடத்துவம் noun (in physics)
- நிலைமம் noun (in physics)
Telugu
1 entries- జడత్వము noun (in physics)
Thai
2 entries- ความเฉื่อย noun (in physics)
- ความเฉื่อยชา noun (unwillingness to take action)
Turkish
2 entries- atalet noun (unwillingness to take action)
- eylemsizlik noun (in physics)
Ukrainian
1 entries- іне́рція noun (in physics)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quán tính noun (in physics)
Welsh
2 entries- llesgedd noun (unwillingness to take action)
- syrthni noun (unwillingness to take action)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Never underestimate the power of inertia.
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In the U.S., businesses say they also encounter regulatory obstacles, which some put down to bureaucratic inertia, others to lack of imaginative thinking.
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Of two balls of the same size (one made of iron, the other of wood) falling from the top of a tower, the iron one, because it has a greater gravitational charge (being heavier), is attracted with greater force, but, on the other hand, precisely because it has more mass (inertia), it offers greater resistance to falling. The result: both touch the ground at the same time, as Galileo demonstrated.
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