trajectory

Definitions

1. The path an object takes as it moves
2. The path an object takes as it moves.
3. The path of a body as it travels through space
4. The path of a body as it travels through space.
5. The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution
6. The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
7. A course of development, such as that of a war or career
8. A course of development, such as that of a war or career.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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