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.
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n. (plural of trajectory English)
Wikipedia
Trajectories was a 1980s tabloid magazine published out of Austin, Texas by Richard Shannon and Susan Sneller. It featured news and articles on fantasy, science, science fantasy, science fiction, and science fiction philosophy. It contained reviews of books, poetry, short stories, music and performances. Articles and stories were contributed by Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Boston, Uncle River, Winter Damon and others. A total of six issues appeared irregularly over a six-year span.
Usage examples of "trajectories".
In the end, two particles are fired at each other, they interact through the electromagnetic force, and finally they emerge on deflected trajectories, a sequence of events that bears some similarity to our description of colliding billiard balls.
Clouds of kinetic shrapnel threw up lethal blockades along the trajectories they predicted the flyers would use.
Alternative orbital trajectories were flashing through his mind as he datavised the flight computer for possible vectors.
He started to run the Tyrathca ship trajectories through some tactical analysis programs.
Fifteen combat wasps launched on interception trajectories, scattering submunitions.
Fusion-powered drones with multi-discipline sensor arrays, they arched away from the starship on trajectories that would position them in a necklace around the Sleeping God.
By observing the trajectories of the deflected marbles he was able to learn that the pit is a small, hard-surfaced mass.
And so, by shooting many five-millimeter pellets at the pit and observing their deflected trajectories, Jim was able to draw a more detailed image.
Should a tear in the fabric of space occur, then among the possible trajectories of travelling strings are those that encircle the tear-trajectories such as those in Figure 11.
Even if no strings seem to be near the tear when it occurs, quantum mechanics takes account of physical effects from all possible string trajectories and among these are numerous (infinite, in fact) protective paths that encircle the tear.
The second spatial dimension opens up a new world of trajectories for each particle, most of which do not cross each other at the same point at the same time.
All these problems of the modern world result from the different historical trajectories implicit in Yali's question.
The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers.
Why were the trajectories of all key developments shifted to later dates in the Americas than in Eurasia?
That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.