Trajectory

Quick meaning: Trajectory is a noun meaning The path an object takes as it moves.

Meaning

The path an object takes as it moves.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy, space science) The path of a body as it travels through space.
2. (cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
3. (figuratively) A course of development, such as that of a war or career.

Example Sentences

It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for trajectory

Depending on context, synonyms include flight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flight, movement, journey, route, evolution, orientation.

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