Inertia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INERTIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the tendency of a body to resist acceleration
• a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
• a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force
• resistance to change in some other physical property
• feeling of unwillingness to do anything
• That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
• Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.
• Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
• a disposition to remain inactive or inert
• (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force

Words related to INERTIA

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Words that contain INERTIA

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How to use INERTIA in a sentence

• He does not admit that spirit can overcome the inertia of matter.
• The force of inertia and the reactionary resistance of tradition were pictured as rows on rows of commonplace streets.
• Freya was moaning with closed eyes, without coming out of her inertia.
• The moving parts are made extremely simple, even arriving at a point where inlet valves are opened and closed by their natural inertia.
• No racial inertia could hinder nor local attachments hold them.
• Along either arm of the chair stretched his own arms limp and heavy with inertia.
• Out of that deathly inertia he drew himself, inch by inch, as out of some clinging swamp.
• The manufacturer who uses a bad machine cannot compete with another whose machine wastes less in friction and inertia.
• The satisfied torpor in which they are sunk is the deadly inertia that precedes dissolution.
• Yet nothing visible came as yet, no alteration in the actual landscape, no sign of change in things familiar to his eyes, while impetus thus fought against inertia.
• Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
• The history of this attempt illustrates the weight of inertia against which any such project has to struggle.
• For what is their office? Nothing less than to move the vast inertia of the soul, and place it, and keep it where the spiritual forces will act upon it.
• But still one must go on having opinions, and go on constructing and creating things, if we do not want to become impotent through inertia.
• There is a mental inertia produced by pure memory exercise that is unfavorable to reflection.
• The Romanesque is an architecture of inertia, with arches heavily weighted by great masses of wall, and with broadly contrasting masses of light and shade.
• The lately-acquired strength proved often a deserter when it was tested, and for the moment the sick man felt all the depression and inertia of the past.
• The momentum of its huge body involved a seemingly slow and lumbering action, an inertia of its movements, difficult to start and difficult to shift or to stop.
• Movement is the equilibrium of Inertia and Activity.
• She was no longer acutely ill, but a low fever hung about her, a species of physical inertia against which she had no strength to struggle.
• In fact, the inner tube of the Armstrong gun is sometimes turned within the others by the inertia of the rifled projectile.
• The physical inertia which has held him for so long is now broken and I look for a dangerous mental and nervous collapse to accompany it.
• This irrational principle may be inertia in matter, accidental perversity in the will, or ultimate conflict of interests.
• The law of inertia keeps it moving in the same direction.

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