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inertia

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noundisinclination to move; lifelessness

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That’s partly a product of inertia, with many advertisers simply accustomed to speaking the language of the GRP.

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According to Yagley, the Supersport-35 has a moment of inertia measuring roughly 5,000 grams per centimeter squared, which is roughly what you might expect from a high-end driver.

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Moving the weight away from the center of gravity gives the club a higher moment of inertia, which means it’s less likely to twist as it hits the ball and send your shot rolling in the wrong direction.

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Those included observations of the sample collection chamber using onboard cameras, as well as a spin maneuver scheduled for Saturday that would approximate the sample’s mass through moment-of-inertia measurements.

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“It feels like inertia, and the inertia is stunning,” Feigenholtz said after the hearing.

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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

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Owing to its inertia, no heavy bellows weight can be set into motion rapidly.

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Owing to its inertia, it would thus tend continually to lag behind the particles of matter about it.

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The observations are difficult, and the inertia of the instrument is liable to cause error, but much care was taken.

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You have no idea how the inertia of such a character makes itself felt.