inertial reference (English, noun)
expansion: inertial reference
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Any of various devices found in airplanes, missiles, satellites, guns, etc. that sense and calculate data such as linear acceleration and turning rate around each axis and which send that data on to other systems.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An inertial frame of reference.
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