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Meanings of
inertia
in English
Portuguese
inércia
Catalan
inèrcia
Spanish
inercia
Back to the meaning
A disposition to remain inactive or inert.
inactivity
inactiveness
activeness
Portuguese
inércia
Synonyms
Examples for "
inactivity
"
inactivity
inactiveness
Examples for "
inactivity
"
1
Background: Physical
inactivity
and sedentary behaviour are major threats to population health.
2
As such they are at increased risk of physical
inactivity
-
related
health consequences.
3
There are too many demands on government after years of state
inactivity
.
4
The global health burden due to physical
inactivity
is enormous and growing.
5
Background: Physical
inactivity
is a leading risk factor for noncommunicable disease worldwide.
Usage of
inertia
in English
1
Any candidate representing
inertia
would simply not survive politically here, he said.
2
In this case we say that the moment of
inertia
is larger.
3
The problem with them, as I indicated at the beginning, was
inertia
.
4
What auto-enrolment does is get our natural
inertia
working in our favour.
5
Surely circumstance consists largely in the
inertia
,
the impenetrability of the destroyers.
6
It must overcome its current complacency, political complexity, and
inertia
to act.
7
I have no trouble going through the motions;
inertia
makes it easy.
8
Official defensiveness and political cowardice, along with deep-seated
inertia
,
have obstructed innovation.
9
Loading significantly increased regenerate bone volume and average polar moment of
inertia
.
10
It had given me something to go on besides
inertia
and fear.
11
A welcome counterpoint to the
inertia
that's seized the country of late.
12
That's fair enough, provided caution does not become an excuse for
inertia
.
13
His names for such forces in human activity were laziness and
inertia
.
14
Things like a bias for action rather than
inertia
,
seems very obvious.
15
For decades, political reformers have been thwarted by the
inertia
of Westminster.
16
The first is common to all projects of reform-theforce of
inertia
.
Other examples for "inertia"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
inertia
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
own inertia
clinical inertia
moral inertia
complete inertia
institutional inertia
More collocations
Translations for
inertia
Portuguese
inércia
Catalan
inèrcia
inactivitat
Spanish
inercia
Inertia
through the time
Inertia
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common