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Lane vs Trajectory - What's the difference?

lane | trajectory |

As a verb lane

is borrow.

As a noun trajectory is

(astronomy|space) the path of a body as it travels through space.

lane

English

(wikipedia lane)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
  • A course designated for ships or aircraft
  • (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.

    • Derived terms

    * laneway * memory lane * shipping lane * swimlane

    See also

    * alley * alleyway * carriageway * direction * gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel * gitty, jitty * side * passage * roadway * snicket * wynd

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    Anagrams

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    trajectory

    English

    (wikipedia trajectory)

    Noun

    (trajectories)
  • (astronomy, space) The path of a body as it travels through space.
  • (cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
  • Metaphorically, a course of development, such as that of a war or career.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= citation , passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory' of ''Mycoplasma'' went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary ' trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

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