trajection

English

Etymology

From the Latin trāiectiō, from trāiciō. The linguistics term was coined by Joseph L. Malone in his book The Science of Linguistics in the Art of Translation in 1988.

Noun

trajection (countable and uncountable, plural trajections)

1. (archaic) The act of trajecting (casting or moving)

   trajection of light or sound, or a planet

   • 1885, John Chrysostom (original), Homily LV on Acts xxviii. 17-20:

     The remainder of the Exposition had fallen into extreme confusion, in consequence of the original redactor’s having read the notes in the order 2, 4, 6: 1, 3, 5: 7: and this is followed by another series of trajections. The restoration of the true order here, and in the numerous cases of the like kind in the former homilies, was no easy matter; but being effected, it speaks for itself.

   1. a moving through or across something; also, emission.
      • 1661, Robert Boyle, “Physiological Considerations Touching the Experiments Wont to be Employed to Evince either the IV Peripatetick Elements, or the III Chymical Principls of Mixt Bodies. Part of the First Dialogue.”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC, pages 212-213:

        But because I am not so sure, that when the Fire works upon Bodies included in Glasses, it does it by a reall Trajection of the Fiery Corpuscles themselves, through the Substance of the Glass

      • 1665, R[obert] Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

        The next thing we are to consider, is the way or manner of the trajection of this motion through the interpos'd pellucid body to the eye

2. (archaic) transposition
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trajection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)