inertial mass

English

Noun

inertial mass (countable and uncountable, plural inertial masses)

1. (physics) The mass of an object measured as its resistance to being accelerated by an applied force; it is equal to its gravitational mass.

Synonyms

• passive gravitational mass (in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation)

Hypernyms

• mass

Coordinate terms

• gravitational mass
• passive gravitational mass
• active gravitational mass
• weight

Anagrams

• antirealisms