inertial mass
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inertial mass (countable and uncountable, plural inertial masses)
- (physics) The mass of an object measured as its resistance to being accelerated by an applied force; it is equal to its gravitational mass.
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- passive gravitational mass (in Einsteinian and Newtonian gravitation)
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