Trajectory vs Strategy - What's the difference?
trajectory | strategy |
(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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The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
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As nouns the difference between trajectory and strategy
is that trajectory is (astronomy|space) the path of a body as it travels through space while strategy is the science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.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)strategy
English
(wikipedia strategy)Noun
citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy', my dear boy, ' strategy . This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
