TRAJECTORY


Meaning of TRAJECTORY in English

noun

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■ 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 that are much better suited to the needs of belt-bound Earthlings.

This section follows the trajectory of an arc in that the attempts gradually fail.

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Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.

In 1873, however, one was found on a trajectory that brought it in to cross the orbit of Mars.

Neither these, nor a variety of other types of household fit into the stereotypical trajectory through the life course.

Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedral lurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory .

Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories.

The postwar family stories suggest that the family has continued in the same trajectory .

The spectator is dropped into the picture, with its racing and contradictory trajectories, like Cary Grant into a Hitchcock plot.

There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories.

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