trajectory

  1. Noun.  The path of a body as it travels through space.
  2. Noun.  (cybernetics) The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
  3. Noun.  Metaphorically, a course of development, such as that of a war or career.

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