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inertia noun apathy, dormancy, dullness, firmness, immobility, immobilization, immovability, inability to act, inactivity, indecision, indisposition to move, inertness, inexcitability, irresolution, lack of activity, lack of motion, lack of movement, languor, lassitude, lethargy, lifelessness, motionlessness, negligence, paralysis, passiveness, passivity, quiescence, resisttnce to change, rest, sloth, sluggishness, stagnation, stupor, supineness, torpor, vegetation, want of activity, weariness See also: desuetude, insentience, sloth How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Palmerino's study of Pierre Gassendi's correspondence challenges his proto-Newtonian image: his principle of inertia still had circular elements, and his notion of force did not yield a uniform continuous acceleration even as he sought the cause behind Galileo's odd-numbers law of free fall. It is a law of physics that a body at rest tends to stay there, and the same principle of inertia influences business decisions--or the lack of them. |
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