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Trajectory vs Traject - What's the difference?

trajectory | traject |

As nouns the difference between trajectory and traject

is that trajectory is the path of a body as it travels through space while traject is a place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.

As a verb traject is

to throw or cast through, over, or across.

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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    traject

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
    • (Cotgrave)
  • (obsolete) The act of trajecting; trajection.
  • (obsolete) A trajectory.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw or cast through, over, or across.
    • to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms
    (Sir Isaac Newton)
    (Webster 1913) ----