moment of inertia

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   the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration

   Broaderinertiamoment

Questions about moment of inertia

What does moment of inertia mean?

moment of inertia means "the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration".

Is moment of inertia a common word?

moment of inertia 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.