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traject

/trəˈdʒɛkt/
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Other forms: trajected; trajecting; trajects

If a baseball trajects sharply upward when hit, it flies up in the air. And if a movie has trajected an actor's career to new heights, it has caused the actor to move forward on the path to success.

People can also traject a trend when they predict what path or course it will follow. You might hear a sentence like, "Trajecting the advances in this technology over the next 30 years, it looks exceedingly promising." This is a projection or prediction of the path the technology will take in the future based on what has been observed so far. The verb traject is related to the more common noun, trajectory, meaning "the path followed by a person or thing."

Definitions of traject
  1. verb
    transmit, especially ideas or words
  2. noun
    a path through space or into the future
  3. verb
    trace or predict the future path of something; make a projection based on existing data
  4. verb
    follow or send on a path, such as through space or into the future; fly, throw, or launch
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