All trajectory synonyms

noun trajectory

• heading — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
• catenary — the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
• direction — the act or an instance of directing.
• camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
• ogee — a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
• curvation — the action of curving or bending
• helix — a spiral.
• orbit — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
• course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
• curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
• flexure — the act of flexing or bending.
• halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
• byway — A byway is a small road which is not used by many cars or people.
• chord — A chord is a number of musical notes played or sung at the same time with a pleasing effect.
• incurvation — curved, especially inward.
• menisci — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
• curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
• meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
• horseshoe — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
• ellipse — A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane that does not intersect the base.
• horseshoes — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
• helices — a native or inhabitant of Corinth.
• hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
• half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.