Definition for Inertia

inertia, n. [L. iners, want of art or skill; this headword appears on a scrap of paper attached to the ED poem, not in the poem itself.]

Rest; inactivity; passiveness; slowness; sluggishness; lack of movement; [fig.] undeviating course; steady motion in a straight line.

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