What's the difference between path and trajectory?

Path


Definition:

  • (n.) A trodden way; a footway.
  • (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
  • (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
  • (v. i.) To walk or go.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
  • (2) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (3) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
  • (4) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
  • (5) "Today a federal district court put up a roadblock on a path constructed by 21 federal court rulings over the last year – a path that inevitably leads to nationwide marriage equality," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign.
  • (6) In sum, these studies demonstrate the novel phospholipid ceramide 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells and suggest the possibility that a path exists from sphingomyelin to ceramide 1-phosphate via the phosphorylation of ceramide.
  • (7) The independent Low Pay Commission will advise on the path future increases should take, taking into account the state of the economy.
  • (8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
  • (9) The effect of the perforant path stimulation on the CA1 and CA3 neurons was investigated in incubated slices of the guinea pig hippocampus.
  • (10) And those who hope to lead Labour now seem to be agreed on one thing: that the path back to power will be paved with talk about aspiration .
  • (11) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (12) The diagnosis was made during the surgical operation which revealed a neurinoma of nerve XI (spinal) in its intracranial path.
  • (13) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
  • (14) An example of a most useful and predictive measure of hypoxic stress is optical spectrophotometry which uses time resolved ranging methods to measure optical path lengths to quantitate hemoglobin deoxygenation in tissues.
  • (15) "We believe that such a path would be catastrophic for the UK, for Europe and for the protection of human rights around the world."
  • (16) "GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society.
  • (17) Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry.
  • (18) Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class 1 molecules that were either transmembrane- (H-2Db) or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored (Qa2) were labeled with antibody-coated gold particles and moved across the cell surface with a laser optical tweezers until they encountered a barrier, the barrier-free path length (BFP).
  • (19) In 2010, Path licensed the Silcs design to Kessel Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH (Kessel) of Frankfurt, Germany.
  • (20) The diffusion paths are calculated by a variant of the time-dependent Hartree approximation which we call LES (locally enhanced sampling).

Trajectory


Definition:

  • (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
  • (2) Peak latencies from all recording sites clustered into two distinct groups--those that included N1 from 'TME,' peak 'I' of the 'A' record and trajectory amplitude peak 'a' of 3-CLT, and those that included the negative peak of '8-AP' and trajectory amplitude peak 'b' of 3-CLT, as well as peak 'II' of the 'A' record, when present.
  • (3) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
  • (4) Six hypotheses to explain how divorce may affect the trajectory of child development were tested using standardized measures and sociodemographic data.
  • (5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
  • (6) After being opposed for so many years, the two most dominant institutions on the island are now on trajectories that draw them closer.
  • (7) In considering hardware, the optimum detector system for cone-beam tomography is a system that satisfies the data sufficiency condition for which the scanning trajectory intersects any plane passing through the reconstructed region of interest.
  • (8) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.
  • (9) Virtual trajectory is considered a behavioral observable.
  • (10) Preoperatively, the CT characteristics of the proposed trajectory of the biopsy needle were determined and correlated intraoperatively with the impedance profile as obtained with a monopolar electrode.
  • (11) Thus, the trajectory of group I fibers was somatotopically organized both in the dorsal funiculus and in the gray matter.
  • (12) The paper presents a quantitative study of the trajectories of rat granulocytes (PMNs) migrating on a glass surface inclined at various angles, i.e.
  • (13) Although we found clear and consistent subject-specific differences, the most common pattern in oblique visually-guided (i.e., fast) saccades reflected early dominance of the horizontal velocity signal as expressed in saccade trajectories curving away from the horizontal axis.
  • (14) Reactive leukocytosis trajectory in these patients was compared to the analogous trajectory in 87 dogs with experimentally induced inflammation.
  • (15) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
  • (16) The [Ca2+]i-length relation defined by the common trajectory shifts appropriately in response to perturbations that have previously been demonstrated to alter the steady-state myofilament Ca2+ sensitivity in skinned cardiac fibres.
  • (17) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
  • (18) They share a number of characteristic features: In both systems the columns have a tendency to form regularly spaced parallel bands whose main trajectory is perpendicular to the border between areas 17 and 18.
  • (19) In addition to animating trajectories, ADAPTU was written to permit diagram generation in two and three dimensions for a detailed analysis, the extraction and listing of properties of a selected conformation and the visualization of the development of constraints in a restrained dynamics.
  • (20) * The trajectories of moustaches and Movember are now crossing, in a year when facial hair became the aesthetic calling card of hipsters: “I don’t know about this whole hipster association,” explains Travis Garone, one of the original founders of Movember.