Trajectory vs Evolve - What's the difference?
trajectory | evolve |
(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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To move in regular procession through a system.
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To change, transform, develop.
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(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
As a noun trajectory
is (astronomy|space) the path of a body as it travels through space.As a verb evolve is
to move in regular procession through a system.trajectory
English
(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.}}
Derived terms
* (sense)evolve
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Verb
- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}