Trajectory

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The path of a projectile or other moving body through space.
  • n. A chosen or taken course: "What died with [the assassinated leaders] was a moral trajectory, a style of aspirationā€ ( Lance Morrow).
  • n. Mathematics A curve that cuts all of a given family of curves or surfaces at the same angle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The path of a body as it travels through space.
  • n. The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
  • n. Metaphorically, a course of development, such as that of a war or career.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The path described by a body moving under the action of given forces; specifically, the curve described by a projectile in its flight through the air. Compare range, 4.
  • n. In geometry, a curve which cuts all the curves or surfaces of a given system at a constant angle. When the constant angle is a right angle, the trajectory is called an orthogonal trajectory.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the path followed by an object moving through space
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    course   
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    directory    rectory   
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    velocity    orbit    acceleration    arc    altitude