inertial observer
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Related to inertial observer: Equivalence of inertial frames
inertial observer
n
(General Physics) a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
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