inertial navigation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinertial guidance

   Broadersteering

Questions about inertial navigation

What does inertial navigation mean?

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

What is another word for inertial navigation?

Close synonyms include inertial guidance. 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 navigation a common word?

inertial navigation 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.