The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
In a person, unwillingness to take action.