What is "inertial"

Usage examples of "inertial".

Charging around the console to reach the empty conn, even as the bridge tilted in the lag of the inertial dampeners and the Voyager began her suicidal run, just as Janeway had intended.

Forqueray, who had had been monitoring our journey with an inertial compass and gravitometer, confirmed that we had ascended at least fifteen vertical metres since the first chamber.

It had an inertial navigation device, as well as electronic sensors and various homeostatic systems, so it could cope with the normal vicissitudes of its environment.

When I was a hundred meters above the tower, I set the direction -- the pen-light clamped in my teeth illuminating the inertial compass, lining up the mat along that invisible line, checking it against the topographic map the old poet had given me -- and held the palm of my hand on the acceleration pattern.

When an inertial force of twenty-eight times gravity is attained, the fuse shutout is thrown open and the missile is armed.

The shuttle crested the south shoulder of Oakey Mountain and headed down Stillhouse Branch, accelerating past Mach Four and preparing for a hot inertial drop along Black Creek.

The probability is high that Terra will autodestruct before Terrans achieve inertial drive, but the converse probability, though small, is real.

She was out and clear now, out and clear, and Grimes cut both inertial and reaction drives, used his gyroscopes to swing the sharp prow of the ship on to the target star, the Doncaster sun, brought that far distant speck of luminosity into the exact centre of his spiderweb sights.

The faster merchantmen were starting to pull away from the group, pushing their impellers and inertial compensators to the limit as if trying to beat the pirate to his planned intercept point.

The ship, her restarted inertial drive noisily clattering, the thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive pervading every cubic millimeter of her, was speeding through the warped continuum toward her destination.

Davinas had restarted his inertial drive and the ship had resumed acceleration.

He succeeded in restarting the inertial drive and cutting the rockets at exactly the same instant.

Her inertial drive was working sweetly, but inevitably noisily, and Grimes wondered what the colonists would be thinking of the irregular beat of his engines, the loud, mechanical clangor driving down from above.

Since there was no feeling of weight in the gel-air, Khouri rapidly lost all sensation of up and down, but she instinctively trusted the suit's own inertial systems to figure things out.

But suddenly, in a remarkable move, Boba Fett acti-vated his inertial damping system, slamming his de-scent to a halt in the atmosphere of Tatooine.