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inertia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈnɝ.ʃə/ (US)
• /ɪˈnɜː.ʃə/ (Australia, UK)
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• /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/ (US)
• /ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/ (Australia, UK)

Etymology

From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). Something close to the modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
   • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute. 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
   • Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia. 1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:
   • Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):
3. (countable, uncountable) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Forms

Deriveds

centre of inertia · entreprenertia · bureaucratic inertia · moment of inertia · inertia time · practico-inertia · inertia selling · center of inertia · inertia welding · inertialess · uterine inertia · inertial · microinertia

Relateds

inert · inertness

Synonyms

sloth (unwillingness to take action) · slothfulness (unwillingness to take action) · laziness (unwillingness to take action) · idleness (unwillingness to take action)

Translations (90)

mi tūpuku (in physics) · de Schwerfälligkeit (unwillingness to take action) · pl bezwładność (in physics) · fi hitaus (in physics) · de Reglosigkeit (in medicine) · tr atalet (unwillingness to take action) · fi jatkavuus (in physics) · ca inèrcia (unwillingness to take action) · km និចលភាព (in physics) · ca inèrcia (in physics) · gd do-mhùthadh (in physics) · fi inertia (in physics) · ro inerție (in physics) · fi velttous (in medicine) · bg инерция (in physics) · pt inércia (unwillingness to take action) · th ความเฉื่อยชา (unwillingness to take action) · haw ehuō (in physics) · th ความเฉื่อย (in physics) · ga táimhe (in physics) · nl traagheid (in physics) · sv tröghet (unwillingness to take action) · gd do-mhùthadh (unwillingness to take action) · pl inercja (in physics) · de Schwerfälligkeit (in medicine) · cs setrvačnost (in physics) · ar عَطَالَة (in physics) · et inerts (in physics) · lv inerce (in physics) · hu tehetetlenség (in physics) · et tegevusetus (unwillingness to take action) · la inertia (unwillingness to take action) · cy llesgedd (unwillingness to take action) · de Trägheit (in physics) · fr inertie (in physics) · cy syrthni (unwillingness to take action) · et inertsus (in physics) · bg вялост (unwillingness to take action) · kk инерция (in physics) · ru ине́ртность (unwillingness to take action) · nl inertie (in physics) · pt inércia (in physics) · hu tétlenség (unwillingness to take action) · az ətalət (in physics) · uk іне́рція (in physics) · ta நிலைமம் (in physics) · el αδράνεια (in physics) · ml ജഡത്വം (in physics) · hi अक्रियता (in physics) · pl bezwładność (unwillingness to take action) · ms inersia (in physics) · ar عَطَالَة (unwillingness to take action) · hi निष्क्रियता (unwillingness to take action) · ja 惰性 (unwillingness to take action) · bg мудност (unwillingness to take action) · de Beharrung (in physics) · et loidus (unwillingness to take action) · la inertia (in physics) · es inercia (unwillingness to take action) · ta சடத்துவம் (in physics) · eo inerteca forto (in physics) · de Beharrungsvermögen (in physics) · vi quán tính (in physics) · it inerzia (unwillingness to take action) · eo inertforto (in physics) · mi whakapahoho (in medicine) · ga spadántacht (unwillingness to take action) · tr eylemsizlik (in physics) · pl inercja (unwillingness to take action) · no treighet (in physics) · no treghet (in physics) · nl daadloosheid (unwillingness to take action) · it inerzia (in physics) · ja 慣性 (in physics) · te జడత్వము (in physics) · de Unbeweglichkeit (unwillingness to take action) · ru вя́лость (unwillingness to take action) · de Trägheit (in medicine) · cmn 慣性 /惯性 (in physics) · eo inerteco (in physics) · es inercia (in physics) · fi vastahakoisuus (unwillingness to take action) · sv tröghet (in physics) · de Trägheit (unwillingness to take action) · sq inerci (in physics) · gd leisg (unwillingness to take action) · tl tigal (in physics) · fi inertia (in medicine) · ru ине́рция (in physics) · fi vitka (in physics)

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