inertial reference frame

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

   Synonymsinertial frame

   Broadercoordinate system

Questions about inertial reference frame

What does inertial reference frame mean?

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

What is another word for inertial reference frame?

Close synonyms include inertial 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 reference frame a common word?

inertial reference 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.