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Definition
the path followed by an object moving through spaceor:
the path of any sequence of events
- High winds will alter the rocket's trajectory.
trajectory = path or route
- Medicare cannot survive on its current trajectory.
- If growth continues on its current trajectory, the company will need another two million dollars in working capital next year.
- The beetle came in a single whistling trajectory, fired from an invisible rifle.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- [speaking of a mechanical hound] It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- The flat trajectory of the shell came and he saw the gypsy jink like a running boar as the earth spouted the little black and gray geyser ahead of him.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Please don't check the firing trajectory, he thought.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- I tried to digest all this, trying to picture the trajectory of Daniel's life.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- Judging from its trajectory, it looked like it would have surely kept going until it hit the right field wall.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- I throw my knife at the oncoming mutt but the creature somersaults, evading the blade, and stays on its trajectory.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- Hassan pointed, and Colin followed the trajectory of his finger to an oak tree about fifteen feet away.John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
- "Those are trajectory lines—Honestly, am I the only person who's ever seen a strategy map?"Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- The grylmhoch's many eyes followed his trajectory Mouths formed, great yawning maws that could have swallowed a bulldozer.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- A jet, up in the blue, silently marking its trajectory with a long, single vapor trail.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- 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.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- He sniffed its new-cut leaves delicately and then, after turning this way and that to get range and trajectory, he fired.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- And each of them could easily hurl my world into a new trajectory.Kiera Cass -- The Heir
- Shoot, in two weeks I met my future wife, changed my entire life's trajectory, and bought my first tie.Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
trajectory = path
trajectory = path
trajectory = route
trajectory = prior path
trajectory = path or route
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