trajectory

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɹəˈdʒɛktəɹɪ/

Noun

trajectory (plural trajectories)

1. The path of a body as it travels through space.
2. (cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
3. Metaphorically, a course of development, such as that of a war or career.
   • 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, 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.

Related terms

• (cybernetics): run

Translations

path of a body

• Basque: traiektoria (eu)
• Catalan: trajectòria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軌道 (cmn), 轨道 (cmn) (guǐdào), (ballistic) 彈道 (cmn), 弹道 (cmn) (dàndào)

• Czech: dráha (cs) f, trajektorie (cs) f
• Esperanto: trajektorio (eo)
• Finnish: rata, lentorata
• French: trajectoire (fr) f
• Galician: traxectoria (gl) f
• German: Flugbahn (de) f, Bahn (de) f, Trajektorie (de) f
• Greek: τροχιά (el) f (trochiá)
• Hebrew: מַסְלוּל (he) (maslul) m

• Hungarian: röppálya (hu)
• Japanese: 軌道 (ja) (きどう, kidō), (ballistic) 弾道 (ja) (だんどう, dandō)
• Lithuanian: trajektòrija (lt) f
• Norwegian: bane (no) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) trajetória (pt) f, (Europe) trajectória (pt) f
• Romanian: traiectorie (ro) f
• Russian: траектория (ru) (trajektórija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трајекторија (sh) f, путања (sh)

  Roman: trajektòrija (sh) f, putanja (sh)

• Slovene: trajektórija (sl) f
• Spanish: trayectoria (es) f
• Vietnamese: quỹ đạo (vi) (軌道 (vi))

ordered set of intermediate states

• Finnish: kehittyminen
• German: Entwicklung (de) f

• Portuguese: trajetória (pt) f
• Russian: траектория (ru) (trajektórija) f  (pronounced: traektórija)

course of development

• Finnish: kulku, kehittyminen
• Galician: traxectoria (gl) f
• German: Zustandskurve (de) f

• Greek: τροχιά (el) f (trochiá)
• Portuguese: trajetória (pt) f