inertial guidance

1. 1.

   a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces

   Synonymsinertial navigation

   Broadersteering

Questions about inertial guidance

What does inertial guidance mean?

inertial guidance means "a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces".

What is another word for inertial guidance?

Close synonyms include inertial navigation. 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 guidance a common word?

inertial guidance 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.