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The path followed by an object moving through space
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trajectory
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB follow ▪ A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction. ▪ But some of Britain's leading socialists were ready to follow a similar trajectory . ▪ Most near-Earth asteroids follow trajectories ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A trajectory is the path a moving object follows through space. Types of trajectories include: Trajectory of a projectile Lofted trajectory —a particular type of non-minimum energy ballistic trajectory Trajectory of a point in a moving fluid Trajectory ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"path described by a body moving under the influence of given forces," 1690s, from Modern Latin trajectorium , from trajectorius "of or pertaining to throwing across," from Latin traiectus "thrown over or across," past participle of traicere "throw across, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trajectory \Tra*ject"o*ry\, n.; pl. Trajectories . [Cf. F. trajectoire.] The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context astronomy space English) The path of a body as it travels through space. 2 (context cybernetics English) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution. 3 Metaphorically, a course of development, ...
Usage examples of trajectory.
We also find in Appendix 1 that if the object is a member of the currently observed family of objects on such trajectories, the lifetime against collision exceeds the age of the solar system.
It was looping, it seemed, on a strange metastable orbit that caused it to fly, on decades-long trajectories, back and forth between the two stars.
Joe practiced with his musketoon in the mountains mastering the trajectories of a howitzer, careful to let himself be seen only from far away.
To distinguish the ensuing trajectory of the photon from the previous trajectories of the electron and positron, we follow a traditional physics convention and draw it with a wiggly line.
The run-to-enable was the torpedo flight from the launching submarine to a point on its trajectory where it would arm the warhead and begin to start pinging active sonar, and to begin its snake-pattern wiggle to search for the target.
Tsiolkovskigrad, but would not have a launch window to SPS-5 for another forty-five minutes and their minimum-time trajectory required a fuel-slurping planar change.
An asteroid hollow has been diverted from its Martian orbit into a powered sunward trajectory.
His armor gaped open, and, with a deft twist of his wrist, Basse threw the dagger, an underhand motion, a flat trajectory, powerful and true, he had practiced since he was six.
He threw another blazebomb into the ranks and it blew as he crouched, ants flying everywhere but still more and more from the cube in the sand, globular eyes, and he aimed more carefully and missed too much adrenalin but the next bomb flew true with a slight arcing trajectory only meters above their heads and down into them and right into the mouth of the cube, right on the upward sloping ramp, and blew just right.
Brim immediately hauled the little starship around on a low-altitude trajectory perpendicular to the cableway, watching the lorry speed away in the distance.
I have watched copulating couples moving along darkened freeways at night, men and women on the verge of orgasm, their cars speeding in a series of inviting trajectories towards the flashing headlamps of the oncoming traffic stream.
Considering the crooked sword, the Graeaean subterfuge, the rear-view approaches to Medusa and Cetus, the far-darting Hermean sandals, even the trajectory of the discus that killed Acrisius, would it be fair to generalize that dodge and indirection were my conscious tactics, and, if so, were they characterological or by Athenian directive?
Even before the daughters have spoken, or refused to speak, the trajectory of their love, there is this transgression: the commodified landscape is sliced up and parcelled out to the highest rhetorical bidder.
The forces roiling around Shandril plucked their crossbolt bolts and hurled blades from swift and deadly trajectories into spiraling, tumbling orbits around the lone figure.
I left, I preset its guidance system for a deorbit trajectory that would bring it down upon Ft.