ANGULAR MOMENTUM
Dictionary entry overview: What does angular momentum mean? • ANGULAR MOMENTUM (noun)
The noun ANGULAR MOMENTUM has 1 sense:
1. the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
Familiarity information: ANGULAR MOMENTUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANGULAR MOMENTUM (noun)
Meaning:
The product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass / angular momentum makes the world go round
Hypernyms ("angular momentum" is a kind of...):
momentum (the product of a body's mass and its velocity)
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