vector
IPA: vˈɛktɝ
noun
- (mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
- (mathematics) An ordered tuple representing such.
- (mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
- (aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
- (epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
- (sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
- (psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
- The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
- (computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
- (programming) A kind of dynamically resizable array.
- (computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
- (molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
- (figurative) Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
verb
- To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
- (computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
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Examples of "vector" in Sentences
- Give the basis vectors of the real lattice.
- The main vector for typhus is the rat flea.
- The resulting payoff vector is the nucleolus.
- The Burgers vector corresponds to the torsion.
- Do the italics represent the magnitude of the vectors
- Here denotes the dimension of the fibre of the vector bundle.
- The matrices are clumsy to manipulate relative to the vectors.
- Inserting the displacement vector to the Hamiltonian results to.
- The pseudoinverse of the null vector is the transposed null vector.
- The analysis was between the distorted and the undistorted vector files.
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