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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L., idleness, fr.

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Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; lack of energy; sluggishness.

Men . . . have immense irresolution and

inertia

Carlyle.

(Med.)

Lack of activity; sluggishness; – said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.

Center of inertia

(Mech.)

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