inertial frame

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   a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid

   Synonymsinertial reference frame

   Broadercoordinate system

Questions about inertial frame

What does inertial frame mean?

inertial frame means "a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid".

What is another word for inertial frame?

Close synonyms include inertial reference frame. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inertial frame a common word?

inertial frame is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.