Definitions for inertia

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inertia in·er·tia

Spelling: [in-ur-shuh, ih-nur-]

IPA: /ɪnˈɜr ʃə, ɪˈnɜr-/

Inertia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in inertia (aeiinrt).

Definitions for inertia

noun

1. inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
2. Physics. the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force. an analogous property of a force:
3. Medicine/Medical. lack of activity, especially as applied to a uterus during childbirth when its contractions have decreased or stopped.

Origin of inertia

1705-15; Latin: lack of skill, slothfulness. See inert, -ia

Examples for inertia

Zach Weisberg, the founding editor of The inertia, a surf culture website, covered the U.S. Open of Surfing.

By the time ACT UP came around to deal with the inertia, it seemed like a raging inevitability that hit with the force of a blaze.

For that sort of inertia in woman is always enigmatic and therefore menacing.

At the same time he overcame part of your inertia, for he made you move a little.

The inertia of the stricken beings on the platform was broken by his move.

The inertia of the meteor has persisted, not as energy, but as a factor of energy.

Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.

Businesses have a fair amount of inertia, and a strong reluctance to fire people.

The answer, to the surprise of some then and probably the captains of inertia today, was no.

That was because if there were no inertia there would be no centrifugal force.