trajectory
noun/trəˈdʒektəri/
/trəˈdʒektəri/
(plural trajectories)
(specialist)- the curved path of something that has been fired, hit or thrown into the air
- a missile’s trajectory
- (figurative) My career seemed to be on a downward trajectory.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from modern Latin trajectoria (feminine), from Latin traject- ‘thrown across’, from the verb traicere, from trans- ‘across’ + jacere ‘to throw’.
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