Coriolis force

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noun

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation;
acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame;
in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced
• Topics:
physics, natural philosophy
• Hypernyms:
force