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Inertial Guidance

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Noun

1. inertial guidance, inertial navigation

a method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Inertial Guidance

see synonyms of inertial guidance
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 missile
Compare celestial guidance, terrestrial guidance

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Inertial Guidance

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n.
Guidance of an aircraft or spacecraft in which gyroscopic and accelerometer data are used by a computer to maintain a predetermined course. Also called inertial navigation.

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