trajectory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ldoce_248_btra·jec·to·ry /trəˈdʒektəri/ noun (plural trajectories) [countable] 1. technicalHP the curved path of an object that has been fired or thrown through the air 〔物体射向或抛向空中形成的〕轨道，轨迹2 
formal the events that happen during a period of time, which often lead to a particular aim or result 〔事物的〕发展轨迹 The decision was certain to affect the trajectory of French politics for some time to come. 这一决定在未来的一段时间里必将影响法国的政治轨迹。
formal the events that happen during a period of time, which often lead to a particular aim or result 〔事物的〕发展轨迹 The decision was certain to affect the trajectory of French politics for some time to come. 这一决定在未来的一段时间里必将影响法国的政治轨迹。Examples from the Corpus
trajectory• In 1873, however, one was found on a trajectory that brought it in to cross the orbit of Mars.• The spectator is dropped into the picture, with its racing and contradictory trajectories, like Cary Grant into a Hitchcock plot.• Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedral lurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory.• There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories.• The postwar family stories suggest that the family has continued in the same trajectory.• Simulation has been used to predict population changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories.• Neither these, nor a variety of other types of household fit into the stereotypical trajectory through the life course.• Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.Origin trajectory (1600-1700) Modern Latin trajectoria, from Latin trajectus, past participle of traicere “to cause to cross”, from trans- ( → TRANS-) + jacere “to throw”tra·jec·to·ry nounChineseSyllable
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trajectory
tra‧jec‧to‧ry /trəˈdʒektəri/
noun (plural trajectories) [countable]
2. formal the events that happen during a period of time, which often lead to a particular aim or result:
The decision was certain to affect the trajectory of French politics for some time to come.
tra‧jec‧to‧ry /trəˈdʒektəri/
noun (plural trajectories) [countable] Date: 1600-1700
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: trajectoria, from Latin trajectus, past participle of traicere 'to cause to cross', from trans- ( ⇨ trans-) + jacere 'to throw'
1. technical the curved path of an object that has been fired or thrown through the airLanguage: Modern Latin
Origin: trajectoria, from Latin trajectus, past participle of traicere 'to cause to cross', from trans- ( ⇨ trans-) + jacere 'to throw'
2. formal the events that happen during a period of time, which often lead to a particular aim or result: