ANGULAR MOMENTUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation

Example:

angular momentum makes the world go round

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("angular momentum" is a kind of...):

momentum (the product of a body's mass and its velocity)

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