inertial guidance

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noun Navigation.

a guidance system for an aerospace vehicle, in which self-contained devices determine the vehicle's course on the basis of the directions and magnitudes of the accelerations it undergoes in flight.

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Also called inertial navigation.

Compare celestial guidance, command guidance.

Origin of inertial guidance

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby inertial guidance

inertia, inertia force, inertial force, inertial frame, inertial fusion, inertial guidance, inertial mass, inertial observer, inertial platform, inertial system, inertial upper stage

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How to use inertial guidance in a sentence

Jettison your lawyers as a source of prison-yard guidance, Abramoff said.
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“Very few agencies offer police any specific guidance or training on how to question people with ID,” said Garrett.
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“Some tribes” have “requested guidance on the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA),” the opening reads.
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According to Wahlberg, his time in prison, as well as the guidance of a parish priest, helped him turn his life around.
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Mariame protests, and tells the guidance counselor that she does not understand.
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And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
In a strict sense, of course, no child's drawing is absolutely spontaneous and independent of external stimulus and guidance.
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For thousands of years—perhaps for millions of years—the generations of men prayed to God for help, for comfort, for guidance.
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And efforts should be made, and supplications offered, to obtain guidance on this point into all truth.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
Chumru and the ryot bestrode the third horse, and under the guidance of one who knew every path, they set out for the Ganges.
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British Dictionary definitions for inertial guidance

inertial guidance

inertial navigation

noun

a method of controlling the flight path of a missile by instruments contained within it. Velocities or distances covered, computed from the acceleration measured by these instruments, are compared with stored data and used to control the speed and direction of the missileCompare celestial guidance, terrestrial guidance

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