trajectory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the path followed by an object moving through space
    flight.

WordNet

Tra*ject"o*ry noun
Etymology
Cf. F. trajectoire.
Wordforms
plural Trajectories
Definitions
  1. The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

Webster 1913