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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
trajectory (plural trajectories)
- The path an object takes as it moves.
2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, The Guardian: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.
- (astronomy, space science) The path of a body as it travels through space.
- (cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
- (figuratively) A course of development, such as that of a war or career.
2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83: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.
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Translations
path of a body
- Arabic: مَسَار m (masār)
- Armenian: հետագիծ (hy) (hetagic)
- Azerbaijani: trayektoriya
- Basque: traiektoria
- Belarusian: траекто́рыя f (trajektóryja)
- Bulgarian: траекто́рия f (traektórija)
- Catalan: trajectòria (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 軌道/轨道 (zh) (guǐdào), (ballistic) 彈道/弹道 (zh) (dàndào)
- Czech: dráha (cs) f, trajektorie f
- Danish: bane c
- Dutch: baan (nl) m, traject (nl) n
- Esperanto: trajektorio
- Estonian: trajektoor (et)
- Finnish: rata (fi), lentorata (fi)
- French: trajectoire (fr) f
- Galician: traxectoria f
- Georgian: ტრაექტორია (ṭraekṭoria)
- German: Flugbahn (de) f, Bahn (de) f, Trajektorie (de) f
- Greek: τροχιά (el) f (trochiá)
- Hebrew: מַסְלוּל (he) m (maslúl)
- Hindi: प्रक्षेपवक्र m (prakṣepvakra)
- Hungarian: röppálya (hu), pálya (hu), pályagörbe (hu), út (hu), útvonal (hu)
- Irish: conair f, ruthag m
- Italian: traiettoria (it) f
- Japanese: 軌道 (ja) (きどう, kidō), (ballistic) 弾道 (ja) (だんどう, dandō)
- Khmer: ចំណរ (km) (cɑmnɑɑ)
- Korean: 궤도(軌道) (ko) (gwedo), 탄도(彈道) (ko) (tando)
- Latvian: trajektorija f
- Lithuanian: trajektòrija (lt) f
- Macedonian: траекторија f (traektorija)
- Maori: arawhiu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bane (no) m
- Persian: مسیر پرتاب (masir-e partâb)
- Polish: trajektoria (pl) f, bieg (pl) m
- Portuguese: trajetória (pt) f (Brazil), trajectória f (Europe)
- Romanian: traiectorie (ro) f
- Russian: траекто́рия (ru) f (traektórija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трајекто̀рија f, пу̀тања f
- Roman: trajektòrija (sh) f, pùtanja (sh) f
- Slovak: trajektória f, dráha (sk) f
- Slovene: trajektórija f
- Spanish: trayectoria (es) f
- Swedish: bana (sv) c
- Tagalog: imbulog
- Thai: วิถี (th) (wí-tǐi)
- Turkish: yörünge (tr)
- Ukrainian: траєкто́рія f (trajektórija)
- Vietnamese: quỹ đạo (vi) (軌道)
- Welsh: llwybr (cy) m
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course of development
- Finnish: kulku (fi), kehittyminen (fi)
- Galician: traxectoria f
- German: Zustandskurve f
- Greek: τροχιά (el) f (trochiá)
- Hungarian: ív (hu), menet (hu), kimenetel (hu), lefolyás (hu), lefutás (hu), kifutás (hu), alakulás (hu)
- Irish: cúrsa m, treocht f
- Japanese: 戦歴 (ja) (せんれき, senreki)
- Polish: bieg (pl) m
- Portuguese: trajetória (pt) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трајекто̀рија f, то̑к m
- Roman: trajektòrija (sh) f, tȏk (sh) m
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