Pathway vs Trajectory - What's the difference?
pathway | trajectory |
A footpath or other path or track.
(biochemistry) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
(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 pathway and trajectory
is that pathway is a footpath or other path or track while trajectory is (astronomy|space) the path of a body as it travels through space.pathway
English
(wikipedia pathway)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
