Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun angular_momentum

1 sense of angular momentum

Sense 1
angular momentum -- (the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation; "any rotating body has an angular momentum about its center of mass"; "angular momentum makes the world go round")
       => momentum -- (the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities")