WordNet
n. (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity
Usage examples of "inertial mass".
It may have taken a great deal of energy to get my inertial mass moving.
Like ansible transmission, churtening draws essentially on inertial mass, but setting up the field, disinfecting it, and holding it stable in size uses a good deal of local energy.
In weight the machines varied, but in inertial mass they were the same everywhere, and therein lay the second important difference between them and people.
Despite its low inertial mass, the big memoid clearly did not like this.
We were both lightweight in the fractional gravity of the bubble, but our inertial mass remained intact.
Anyway, a year ago, some Spiders were using abandoned mines in the altiplano south of Calorica, trying to find a difference between gravitational mass and inertial mass.
Maybe it was easy, when you tipped the inertial mass indicator at over three hundred kilos.
When it did, the combined push of Kelly's arm and the inertial mass of the body pushed the chamber backwards, jamming the primer on the fixed firing pin, and the shotgun shell went off, its crimped green-plastic face actually in contact with Junior's shirt.
Then he remembered that inertial mass was unaffected by gravity, or the lack of it.
Moving at hundreds of times the speed of light, the Enterprise passed through untold billions of cubic meters every second and, at those post-relativistic velocities, each atom encountered behaved as though it were many times its actual inertial mass.