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  • Force times the trajectory angle—†   (source)
  • Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning.†   (source)
  • The transceiver crackles with wind speeds, air pressure, trajectories.†   (source)
  • It can't get back to orbit, but it can go to the Ares 4 site on a lateral trajectory that's, well, really scary.†   (source)
  • Point by point, he enumerated the surviving evidence against Jim Williams: the placement of bullet fragments, the bits of paper on the gun, the trajectory of fire, the chair leg on Hansford's pants, the blood on Hansford's hand but no blood on his gun.†   (source)
  • Then he adjusted his trajectory, and leaned on his side, as if he'd just remembered there was something fragile he couldn't sit on.†   (source)
  • Their trajectory is converging.†   (source)
  • Third, her physics teacher had used this very movie to prove, scientifically, that given the speed of the car and the trajectory of the vectors, the actor could indeed jump the bridge-but only if the wind wasn't blowing.†   (source)
  • When his mother spoke, the boy tipped his head back and spat—a sizable and mud-colored trajectory.†   (source)
  • I throw my knife at the oncoming mutt but the creature somersaults, evading the blade, and stays on its trajectory.†   (source)
  • His pen pressed harder and harder as he colored in the embalming fluid inside, as he perfected the trajectory of the three drops squirting out.†   (source)
  • She stumbled, changing the trajectory of the magbelt, but the android's metal pinchers grasped her wrist first.†   (source)
  • "Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is."†   (source)
  • The wine-dark splash carried a blatting animation that threw me back into the energy of the shot all over again: the kick, the burst, trajectory of droplets.†   (source)
  • So when the end table was knocked over, they should have spilled mostly in front of it, following the trajectory of the falling table.†   (source)
  • Puppet placed a well-worn piece of chalk and twisted his cue stick into it for several seconds, all the time deducing the trajectory of the cue ball for his next stroke.†   (source)
  • A jet, up in the blue, silently marking its trajectory with a long, single vapor trail.†   (source)
  • The omens had been cast, and their trajectories were straightforward, calculable, direct, and clear.†   (source)
  • On one particular night, though, in fact the night after he had struggled to prepare his firm's pitch to the soap company, Saeed was absentmindedly scanning along a trajectory that ran below the horizon.†   (source)
  • So it will have described a trajectory corresponding to the marble's path across the inclined plane.†   (source)
  • "Depressed-trajectory shot," Ryan said.†   (source)
  • And finally, he swings the big Harley around in a trajectory that brings him back to the big important Crip.†   (source)
  • The diagram shows the car veering off the left-hand side, then tumbling down I-24 in a trajectory that took it back across both lanes of westbound traffic.†   (source)
  • Cellular phones have followed the same trajectory.†   (source)
  • He opened his eyes with a shudder of curiosity, expecting to meet the incandescent trajectory of the bullets, but he only saw Captain Roque Carnicero with his arms in the air and Jose Arcadio crossing the street with his fearsome shotgun ready to go off.†   (source)
  • And each of them could easily hurl my world into a new trajectory.†   (source)
  • Many of the stories, she finds, follow a similar trajectory: This bad thing happened, and this—and I found myself on a train—and this bad thing happened, and this—but I grew up to become a respectable, law-abiding citizen; I fell in love, I had children and grandchildren; in short, I've had a happy life, a life that could only have been possible because I was orphaned or abandoned and sent to Kansas or Minnesota or Oklahoma on a train.†   (source)
  • All performed flawlessly, flying nice elliptical trajectories downrange to impact on the slack.†   (source)
  • My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy—but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.†   (source)
  • He had to judge distances with absolute accuracy, anticipate the wind's effect on a bullet's trajectory, and learn a new language universal to Navy snipers.†   (source)
  • Yet that fate did not come to pass—and it was a crackdown on the brothels that ended Momm's managerial trajectory.†   (source)
  • The jolt probably made her lose concentration, even as the fireballs continued to fly her way, because she misjudged the trajectory of one of them and ended up catching it against her shirt.†   (source)
  • The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick a foot out and trip her.†   (source)
  • In fact, the entire trajectory of our relationship, all the way back to the day we'd met, was like one long dream, bumpy and strange, full of things that should have made sense but didn't.†   (source)
  • I am, as well, eternally fortunate to have an agent and friend, Kris Dahl, whose flawless guidance was crucial to the launch and trajectory of this project.†   (source)
  • He don't understand trajectory.†   (source)
  • He followed her trajectory backward and saw the tall girl standing beside the room with the busted door.†   (source)
  • Ma:rk's eyes followed the trajectory.†   (source)
  • I follow the same tortured trajectory over and over—from my rush of disbelieving joy to my crashing deflation.†   (source)
  • In my wildest imagination, I could never have guessed the trajectory it would choose.†   (source)
  • Using regression analysis to control for other factors that might influence life trajectories, it was then possible to measure the impact of a single factor—in this case, a woman's first name—on her educational, income, and health outcomes.†   (source)
  • The grylmhoch's many eyes followed his trajectory Mouths formed, great yawning maws that could have swallowed a bulldozer.†   (source)
  • Since the day he had first met Salander he had had a strong presentiment that her life was on a trajectory towards catastrophe.†   (source)
  • This time he knew the man's trajectory before he could line up his kick.†   (source)
  • Those flat-trajectory shells would skim straight in, making a roaring sound in the dark: Foom!†   (source)
  • Hassan pointed, and Colin followed the trajectory of his finger to an oak tree about fifteen feet away.†   (source)
  • Vandenberg computed this site on the basis of radar observations and 1410 computer trajectory projections.†   (source)
  • Judging from its trajectory, it looked like it would have surely kept going until it hit the right field wall.†   (source)
  • Then I had seen her at end in free trajectory—curled into ball in air and had hit a yellow jacket in knees, he whose jaw I broke a moment later.†   (source)
  • One of their patrols made that very mistake, and we fired a bunch of flares in a flat trajectory onto the riverbed.†   (source)
  • No doubt the result of a spell she had cast, her gyrations slowed and then ceased, as did her downward trajectory, until at last she floated upright in the night sky.†   (source)
  • Those are trajectory lines—Honestly, am I the only person who's ever seen a strategy map?†   (source)
  • And while his career kept advancing after that snub, it didn't do so at quite the same trajectory.†   (source)
  • Without a warning move, the Chinese lashed his right leg out, shoving his body off the pavement like a speeding trajectory in reverse.†   (source)
  • A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the trajectory of the ball.†   (source)
  • He looked at the angle and trajectory again and shrugged.†   (source)
  • He sniffed its new-cut leaves delicately and then, after turning this way and that to get range and trajectory, he fired.†   (source)
  • The circle rose like a fleeing partridge, glittered brilliantly in the sunshine as it reached the top of its trajectory, sailed gracefully out over a nearby tundra pond and, with barely a splash, sliced into the water and disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • Speed and trajectory indicates they are ballistic missiles.†   (source)
  • The beetle came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle.   (source)
    trajectory = route
  • Zeitoun's father would likely be both proud and bemused by the trajectory of his son's life.†   (source)
  • In this way, Papaw's death permanently altered the trajectory of our family.†   (source)
  • They need their velocity for the return trajectory.†   (source)
  • But since the mech was lying flat, the head shot out on a trajectory parallel to the ground.†   (source)
  • We are still on track to planned trajectory within four meters.†   (source)
  • I'm giving you total authority over satellite trajectories and orbital adjustments.†   (source)
  • Please don't check the firing trajectory, he thought.†   (source)
  • Following Jonathan's lead, Jessica kept their trajectory low.†   (source)
  • He ran faster and faster, but the apple's trajectory continued to rise.†   (source)
  • I tried to digest all this, trying to picture the trajectory of Daniel's life.†   (source)
  • ...this other planet, that's moving within the same trajectory as Earth.†   (source)
  • When the trajectory flattened, the highest targeted goals were no longer achievable.†   (source)
  • The trajectory of his career was set: public health work to make it safe for women to have babies.†   (source)
  • He took aim and hurled the first end over end, keeping the trajectory low.†   (source)
  • Love's trajectory is entirely predictable.†   (source)
  • But either way the Paws can be set up on its trajectory to catch it.†   (source)
  • It's all about reentering the family atmosphere with the proper trajectory, speed, and timing.†   (source)
  • I turn to follow her trajectory and immediately see why.†   (source)
  • The enemy would like to fire point-blank, in an almost flat trajectory, at our gun ports.†   (source)
  • The gas followed more or less the same trajectory, and gravity gathers everything.†   (source)
  • He had come this way following, in his mind's eye, the trajectory of the shot.†   (source)
  • "We're getting some trajectory change on Icarus," Dr. Bell said.†   (source)
  • "Recalculating trajectory and ...shutting down," Steve said.†   (source)
  • We have you on trajectory for orbital insertion.†   (source)
  • Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man,would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise.†   (source)
  • Both bank draft, and deposit slip, were printed with the words Farruco Frantisek, Citizen Bank Anguilla, which only increased the sense of dream trajectory, a track speeding up too fast to slow down.†   (source)
  • The slow-moving man who appeared to be her husband folded and unfolded his beefy arms, and spontaneously, upon the mother's utterance—the specter in jungle fatigues tipped his head back and spat another sizable, mud-colored trajectory.†   (source)
  • The chopper pulls up into a hard turn, searching for additional prey, and something falls beneath it in a powerless trajectory, she thinks that it has dropped a bomb.†   (source)
  • You're clearly a significant piece in this cast, and it would be improper of me to interfere with your trajectory.†   (source)
  • "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"†   (source)
  • A trajectory from Watts converged with the more-thancentury-old fight of the Mexican people for their own freedoms to ripen into the Chicano Movement as manifested in East L.A. And what a time it was to be in East L.A!†   (source)
  • A small quadcopter drone was hovering fifty meters above them now, too quiet to be heard, and relaying its feed to a central monitoring station and also to two different security vehicles, one an unmarked sedan, the other a badged van with grilles on its windows, and from the latter vehicle a pair of uniformed men emerged and walked purposefully, but without undue or tourist-alarming haste, along a trajectory that would intersect with that of the Tamil-speaking family in a minute or so.†   (source)
  • Mohammed's incredible rise and premature passing had shaped the trajectory of Zeitoun's family in general and of Abdulrahman in particular, but he didn't like to dwell on it.†   (source)
  • If one drew a line with one's finger through its two lowest stars and followed its trajectory across the heavens, one would reach Aquila, the Eagle; while if one drew a line through its uppermost stars, one would reach Pegasus, Bellerophon's flying stallion; and if one drew a line in the opposite direction, one would reach what appeared to be a brand-new star—a sun that may have flared out a thousand years ago, but the light of which had just reached the Northern Hemisphere in order to provide guidance to weary travelers, sojourners, and adventurers for another millennia to come.... "What are you doing?"†   (source)
  • It swung from a wire that was sixty-seven meters long; because its trajectory changed over time, he explained, it proved beyond all doubt that the earth rotated.†   (source)
  • Mercer turned his truck toward the drone, as if intending to ram it, but it adjusted its trajectory automatically and mimicked his movement, staying directly in sync.†   (source)
  • Ahmad was a ship captain, had been for thirty years, piloting tankers and ocean liners in every conceivable body of water, and he knew as much as anyone about storms, their trajectories and power.†   (source)
  • But as soon as he fired a couple of rounds, we plotted the bullets' trajectories on millimeter-wave and back-traced them.†   (source)
  • The Great Recession, and the not-great recovery that followed, had hastened Middletown's downward trajectory.†   (source)
  • This throw was mine, and if I had miscalculated slightly the trajectory of one piece, I had not miscalculated the others.†   (source)
  • I turned, looked along the trajectory of the bullet that had hit me, saw panicked citizens and the sudden silver gleam of armor—this other shooter had seen me shoot the first, didn't know armor wouldn't help her.†   (source)
  • I was undoubtedly on an upward trajectory, but even toward the end of high school, C's in easy classes revealed a kid unprepared for the rigors of advanced education.†   (source)
  • Too many apparently predictable people who are, in reality, balanced on a knife-edge, or whose trajectories might be easily changed, if only I knew.†   (source)
  • A decade later, however, a subsequent ascent of the mountain helped establish the trajectory of my life.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels gave a monstrous belch and promptly launched a silver ball on an impressive trajectory until it plunked unceremoniously on the golem's head.†   (source)
  • He bolted for them, roaring like a bull, and swung the hammer, adjusting the trajectory of the head as best he could, given the energy he'd already thrown into the swing.†   (source)
  • Shoot, in two weeks I met my future wife, changed my entire life's trajectory, and bought my first tie.†   (source)
  • That's not a good trajectory.†   (source)
  • He flips forward to the chapter on series, an odd digression from the mostly tangible issues of calculus dealing with force or velocity or the trajectory of objects as they bump and bounce through the world.†   (source)
  • Departure speed from a catapult is highly critical and a variation on order of one percent could double or halve trajectory time, Luna to Terra.†   (source)
  • Nervously, we set up the display, which consisted of a three-hinged fiberboard on which I had taped a number of posters showing nozzle calculations, the parabolic trajectory of our rockets, and the trigonometry we had used to calculate altitudes.†   (source)
  • Even as they fell, their trajectory changed so that they skimmed over the lake's placid waters instead of crashing into them.†   (source)
  • The smee squawked with the strain, his voice warbling as the balloon's trajectory smoothed and they were skimming twenty feet above the lake Max had sighted.†   (source)
  • And his soft, soulful eyes lift up to mine, at the end of a trajectory that even Vosch failed to predict.†   (source)
  • Quentin came to my house on weekends and helped me prepare charts and diagrams of the nozzle functions, rocket trajectories, and fin designs.†   (source)
  • Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time.†   (source)
  • It landed against the near wall, bounced, flew into the air in a low trajectory, and came to rest on the grassy rim that formed the roof of the Bell Tower.†   (source)
  • Retrace the trajectory.†   (source)
  • Last barge in trajectory would be taken by Poona Ground Control in slightly over one day and Earth would be told, nastily, that was last they would ever get.†   (source)
  • The trajectories are the same as if you were firing on level ground, but instead of tilting back the barrel of the gun, the whole earth has been bent.†   (source)
  • Those four reported tracking dead on by eyeball without touching manual controls—good news; meant that Mike had that baby taped, had solved trajectory perfectly.†   (source)
  • He knew the trajectories were streaming in his direction, he felt the blasts in his chest-hollow metallic bursts like the cross between thunder, cymbals, and bombs-and he saw the light darting into the tent as if the purpose of the barrage were to make shadows on army canvas.†   (source)
  • But my effective reflex time is much less, as I project and predict constantly, see ahead, program it out—in effect, I'll stay four seconds ahead of you in your trajectory and respond instantly.†   (source)
  • Once, having left his house after an adolescent raid upon his father's patience, Alessandro had bested all his previous records and spent seven hours next to a simple round pool in a little park in what was then a new suburban quarter to the south, and if it is true that nothing is ever forgotten, he had the images and coordinates of a hundred million lazy trajectories marked in cascading water and hesitant droplets revolving at the peak of sunlit wavering arcs.†   (source)
  • "He's either an idiot or a student," Nathan said, watching the numbers from the asteroid's trajectory.†   (source)
  • When finished—forty minutes—every load in trajectory intended for an inland target had been retargeted for a seacoast city—with hedge to my bet that execution was delayed for rocks farther back.†   (source)
  • Reminded self that it couldn't fall on us from a departure ellipse looping back, would have to fall around Luna—unless ship had maneuvered into new trajectory.†   (source)
  • How's our trajectory?†   (source)
  • Vessels of private registry would be permitted to land if a) permission was requested ahead of time with ballistic plan, b) a vessel thus cleared placed itself under Luna Ground Control (Mike') at a distance of one hundred thousand kilometers while following approved trajectory, and c) was unarmed save for three hand guns permitted three officers.†   (source)
  • So we place all ammo from the old catapult in slow trajectories, which forces the admiral to go after the radars rather than the catapult—or both.†   (source)
  • So I've ordered the catapult head—you have, I mean—to prepare to launch every load we can get ready, and I am now working out new, long-period trajectories for each of them.†   (source)
  • I simply intended to sight a bit high up on the trunk and hope that so heavy a bow would give me a flattish trajectory.†   (source)
  • As Mark talked, his face became grave, almost gaunt, and his index finger traced great circle routes across the cracking surface—missile and bomber trajectories.†   (source)
  • I would recognize them because of their flat trajectory.†   (source)
  • He held the bag out there, the wine making a flat, hard trajectory into his mouth, and he kept on swallowing smoothly and regularly.†   (source)
  • He (the architect) knew about the wild negroes even if he couldn't have known that Sutpen would get dogs; he had chosen that tree and hauled that pole up after him and calculated stress and distance and trajectory and had crossed a gap to the next nearest tree that a flying squirrel could not have crossed and traveled from there on from tree to tree for almost half a mile before he put foot on the ground again.†   (source)
  • I think Einhorn was disappointed and maybe even shocked; shocked, I mean, by his misjudgment of my fitness to follow him in his shooting trajectory into what a soul should be.†   (source)
  • The name Gilberte passed close by me, evoking all the more forcibly her whom it labelled in that it did not merely refer to her, as one speaks of a man in his absence, but was directly addressed to her; it passed thus close by me, in action, so to speak, with a force that increased with the curve of its trajectory and as it drew near to its target;—carrying in its wake, I could feel, the knowledge, the impression of her to whom it was addressed that belonged not to me but to the friend who called to her, everything that, while she uttered the words, she more or less vividly reviewed, possessed in her memory, of their daily intimacy, of the visits that the†   (source)
  • Thus, by a sort of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; and Poulailler saying: "I light my camoufle," causes Voltaire to write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred camouflets."†   (source)
  • Whatever the range of its flight, however evasive its trajectory (even up and over the Nautilus), the hapless flying fish always found a dolphin to welcome it with open mouth.†   (source)
  • In firing at short range, the trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge.†   (source)
  • Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west.†   (source)
  • The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.†   (source)
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