{
  "id": "inertia.resistance",
  "term": "inertia",
  "sense": "resistance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose window is narrower than the range of drift, so that drift does not move it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "range.spatial",
      "motion.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "In a system subject to drift, a parameter with inertia resists change because its window is narrow relative to the drift range.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "resistance to change",
      "stability under drift"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit at 400 km altitude despite atmospheric drag, requiring periodic reboosts from visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Earth's rotation has slowed by only 2.5 milliseconds per century over the last 2,000 years due to tidal friction.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution’s Article V amendment process has been used only 27 times in 235 years, preserving core structures.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "inertia"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'windows.opening' as it is not constitutive (refers to physical windows); retained 'motion.movement' as drift implies movement, making it genuinely constitutive. All other declared components "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inertia.resistance"
}