inertial guidance system

1. 1.

   a system to control a plane or spacecraft; uses inertial forces

   Synonymsinertial navigation system

   Broadersystem

   Part ofspacecraftautopilot

Questions about inertial guidance system

What does inertial guidance system mean?

inertial guidance system means "a system to control a plane or spacecraft; uses inertial forces".

What is another word for inertial guidance system?

Close synonyms include inertial navigation system. 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 system a common word?

inertial guidance system 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.