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inertial mass

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inertial mass [i′nər·shəl ′mas]
(mechanics)
The mass of an object as determined by Newton's second law, in contrast to the mass as determined by the proportionality to the gravitational force.


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This theory would also account for the fact that most women are not attracted to other women’s breasts (due to the inertial mass of their own breasts), and we can speculate that lesbianism may be primarily a question of aberrant breast density.
The question is whether the people as a slow-moving inertial mass can act quickly enough to stop a single family from abolishing democracy.
 
 
 
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