inertial platform
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inertial platform
[i′nər·shəl ′plat‚fȯrm] (navigation)
In an inertial navigator a platform that maintains sensing instruments in a precise known angular orientation in space.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
inertial platform
Inertial platform.
A rigid, gyro-stabilized frame on which accelerometers are mounted.
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