different between obit vs trajectory

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from ob?re (“to go down, to die”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??b?t/, /???b?t/

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (archaic) Death of a person. [14th-17th c.]
2. (Christianity, historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. [from 14th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 582:

     Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.

3. A record of a person's death. [from 15th c.]

Etymology 2

Shortened from obituary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b?t/, /??b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

obit (plural obits)

1. (colloquial) An obituary.

Anagrams

• B. I. O. T., biot

French

Etymology

Latin obitus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.bit/

Noun

obit m (plural obits)

1. (archaic) death

Related terms

• obituaire

Further reading

• “obit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

obit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of obe?

English

Etymology

From New Latin tr?iect?rium, from tr?iect?rius (“of or pertaining to throwing across”), from Latin tr?iectus (“thrown over or across”), past participle of tr?ici?, from trans- (“across, beyond”) (see trans-) + iaci? (“to throw”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh?- (“to throw, impel”)). Middle French and Middle English had trajectorie (“end of a funnel”), from Latin tr?iect?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???d??kt???/

Noun

trajectory (plural trajectories)

1. The path an object takes as it moves.
   • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]

     The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

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

Derived terms

• (astronomy, space): flyby trajectory

Related terms

• (cybernetics): run

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