angular momentum (English, noun)
expansion: angular momentum (plural angular momenta)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The vector product that describes the rotary inertia of a system about an axis and is conserved in a closed system. For an isolated rigid body, it is a measure of the extent to which an object will continue to rotate in the absence of an applied torque.
Forms:
form: angular momenta
tags: plural