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IR

IR is the initialism of inertial reference.

IR is the initialism of industrial relations.

IR is the initialism of investor relations.

IR is the initialism of information retrieval.

IR is the initialism of intermediate representation.

IR is the initialism of incident report.

Meaning of inertial reference

Noun

inertial reference

  1. Any of various devices found in airplanes, missiles, satellites, guns, etc. that sense and calculate data such as linear acceleration and turning rate around each axis and which send that data on to other systems.
    • Moreover, one terminal of M is connected to the inertial reference (IR).1974, Jose Behar Cruz, Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg, Signals in Linear Circuits, page 532
    Synonyms:
    IR
  2. An inertial frame of reference.
    • The SSM inertial reference sensors (star trackers (ST) and/or coarse sun sensors (CSS)) are not suitable as a tracking reference for the FSM for two reasons.2000, Jim Bernard Breckinridge, Peter Jakobsen, UV, Optical, and IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, page 926

Meaning of industrial relations

Noun

industrial relations (uncountable)

  1. (labour) The relationship between management and workers in a given industry.

Antonyms of IR

Forms of IR

pluralIRs

Questions about IR

What is IR the initialism of?
IR is the initialism of inertial reference.

Words near IR in the dictionary

  1. iquindamine
  2. iquiqueite
  3. Iquito
  4. Iquitos
  5. iqyax
  6. IR
  7. IR drop
  8. ir-
  9. Ir.
  10. Ira
  11. Iraak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IR (page history and authors); inertial reference (page history and authors); industrial relations (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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