Obit vs Trajectory - What's the difference?
obit | trajectory |
(obsolete) Death of a person.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 582:
A record of a person's death.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between obit and trajectory
is that obit is (obsolete) death of a person or obit can be (colloquial) an obituary while trajectory is (astronomy|space) the path of a body as it travels through space.obit
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) obit, (etyl) obit, and their source, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits , as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
Etymology 2
Shortened from (obituary).Anagrams
* ----trajectory
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(wikipedia trajectory)Noun
(trajectories)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.}}
