trajectory
/tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/
trajectory noun: the path an object takes as it moves.
Noun
trajectory (plural 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...2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, The Guardian
- 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...2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83
trajectory meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
trajectory in Hindi
- path of a body
- प्रक्षेपवक्र prakṣepvakra
trajectory in Tamil
- path of a body
- போக்கு pōkku
trajectory in Urdu
- گزر گاہ, خط حرکت, خط پرواز
trajectory in Malayalam
- path, course, route
- ആകാശപഥം, സഞ്ചാരപഥം, പഥം, പാത, മാർഗ്ഗം, പന്ഥാവ്
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- trajectory in Nepali
- प्रक्षेपवक्र
- trajectory in Tagalog
- imbulog
- trajectory in Arabic
- مَسَار masār
- trajectory in Persian
- مسیر پرتاب masir-e partâb
- trajectory in Thai
- วิถี wí-tǐi
- trajectory in Vietnamese
- quỹ đạo
Examples of trajectory in a sentence
- The rocket's malfunction was down to a rounding error in the mathematics of its trajectory guidance.
- The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
- The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but the jobs follow very different trajectories.
Forms of trajectory
| plural | trajectories |
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Origin of trajectory
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.
Words formed from trajectory
- flyby trajectory
- microtrajectory
- multitrajectory
- pseudotrajectory
- subtrajectory
- trajectoid
- trajectorywise
Questions about trajectory
- What does trajectory mean?
- Trajectory means the path an object takes as it moves.
- What is trajectory in Hindi?
- Trajectory in Hindi is प्रक्षेपवक्र (prakṣepvakra). See Trajectory meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is trajectory?
- Trajectory is a noun.
- How do you pronounce trajectory?
- Trajectory is pronounced /tɹəˈd͡ʒɛktəɹi/.
- What is the plural of trajectory?
- The plural of trajectory is trajectories.
Words near trajectory in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: trajectory (page history and authors); trajectory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trajectory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); trajectory (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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