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moments of inertia

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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
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