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Moment of inertia

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moment of inertia

 
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–noun Physics.
the sum of the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body rotating about an axis.
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1820–30
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moment of inertia  
n.   pl. moments of inertia
A measure of a body's resistance to angular acceleration, equal to:
a. The product of the mass of a particle and the square of its distance from a reference.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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