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Noun: inertial navigation
  1. A method of controlling the flight of a missile by devices that respond to inertial forces
    "The spacecraft used inertial navigation to maintain its course through space";
    - inertial guidance

Derived forms: inertial navigations

Type of: direction, guidance, steering

Encyclopedia: Inertial navigation