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Trajectory vs Itinerary - What's the difference?

trajectory | itinerary |

As nouns the difference between trajectory and itinerary

is that trajectory is the path of a body as it travels through space while itinerary is a route or proposed route of a journey.

As an adjective itinerary is

itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.

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.}}

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    itinerary

    English

    Noun

    (itineraries)
  • A route or proposed route of a journey.
  • An account or record of a journey.
  • A guidebook for travellers.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey
  • * Francis Bacon
    • It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.

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