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What does inertia mean?

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Noun
  1. (physics) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  2. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  3. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
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Again, faith seems to me to be manifest in both a commitment to believe and mere mental inertia.
Plastic is used for the turbine and compressor wheels, which have low inertia and mass.
Sciama was very keen on Mach's principle, the idea that objects owe their inertia to the influence of all the other matter in the universe.
It is an astonishing victory over the forces of government inertia, and she could not resist basking in her moment of glory.
This means the bears are losing their grip on the market and simple inertia is driving prices lower.
My inertia in not pushing it backwards into a safe zone is as guilty for the shattered glass as the treacherous wind.

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