trajectory

trajectory

/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 Origin

late 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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