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inertially

Adverb

Meaning

In an inertial manner

By means of inertia (or inertial forces)

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Both Trident versions are three-stage, solid-propellant, inertially guided missiles, and both guidance systems use a star sighting to improve overall weapons system accuracy. Source: Internet

For two clocks moving inertially (not accelerating) relative to one another, this effect is reciprocal, with each clock measuring the other to be ticking slower. Source: Internet

The new laser is expected to have the ability to produce, for the first time, more energy from controlled, inertially confined nuclear fusion than was required to initiate the reaction. citation 2010s The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Source: Internet

The IUS was inertially stabilised and actively guided during its burn. Source: Internet

This is incompatible with classical mechanics and special relativity because in those theories inertially moving objects cannot accelerate with respect to each other, but objects in free fall do so. Source: Internet

When an observer finds that inertially moving objects are being accelerated with respect to themselves, those objects are in a gravitational field insofar as relativity is concerned. Source: Internet

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