trajectory
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trajectory
- /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/
Where it comes from
From New Latin trāiectōria f (“trajectory”) (used by Newton), the feminine of trāiectōrius (“of or pertaining to throwing across”), from Latin trāiectus (“thrown over or across”), past participle of trāiciō, from trans- (“across, beyond”) (see trans-) + iaciō (“to throw”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw, impel”)). Middle French and Middle English had trajectorie (“end of a funnel”), from Latin trāiectōrium.
noun trajectories
- The path an object takes as it moves. 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 appar
- The path of a body as it travels through space.
- The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
- A course of development, such as that of a war or career. 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 accep
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Closest in meaning: flight, movement, journey, route, evolution, orientation, way, curve, path, pathway, career, bullet, stroke, road, track, record
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noun path of a body
| Español | trayectoria |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 궤도 gwedo, 탄도 tando |
| 日本語 | 軌道 kidō, 弾道 dandō |
| 中文 | 軌道 /轨道 guǐdào, 彈道 /弹道 dàndào |
| हिन्दी | प्रक्षेपवक्र prakṣepvakra |
| Português | trajetória, trajectória |
| Français | trajectoire |
| Deutsch | Flugbahn, Bahn, Trajektorie |
| Italiano | traiettoria |
| Ελληνικά | τροχιά trochiá |
| Română | traiectorie |
| Русский | траекто́рия traektórija |
| Tiếng Việt | quỹ đạo |
| العربية | مَسَار masār |
| עברית | מַסְלוּל maslúl |
noun ordered set of intermediate states
| Português | trajetória |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Entwicklung |
| Русский | траекто́рия traektórija |
noun course of development
| 日本語 | 戦歴 senreki |
|---|---|
| Português | trajetória |
| Deutsch | Entwicklungsverlauf |
| Ελληνικά | τροχιά trochiá |
Talk about this word "trajectory." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/trajectory. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. trajectory. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/trajectory "trajectory." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/trajectory.Cite this
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title = {trajectory},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trajectory},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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