vector
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Italic *weɣō Latin vehō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin vectorlbor. English vector Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“to carry, transport, bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle. The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
- learned borrowing from vector
Definitions
A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction
A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
- Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.
- As examples of vector quantities may be mentioned the distance between any two given points, a velocity, a force, an acceleration, angular velocity, intensity of magnetization flux of heat.
A kind of dynamically resizable array.
- To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]
A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
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Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory…
Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
- […] if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.
To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
The neighborhood
- neighboraxial vector
- neighborBurgers vector
- neighborchange vector
- neighborcolumn vector
- neighborDarboux vector
- neighbordisplacement vector
- neighborEuclidean vector
- neighborgradient vector
- neighborgyrovector
- neighborirrotational vector
- neighborLaplace–Runge–Lenz vector
- neighborlatent vector
Derived
adenovector, attack vector, axial vector, basis vector, biovector, bitvector, bivector, characteristic vector, code vector, covector, direction vector, distance vector, four-vector, intermediate vector boson, isovector, Killing vector field, minivector, multivector, nanovector, net magnetization vector, normed vector space, paravector, Pauli vector, phasor, polarization vector, pseudovector, quadrivector, radius vector, real vector space, retrovector, revector, shuttle vector, statevector, subvector, supervector, support vector machine, topological vector space, transvector, trivector, vectoral · +30 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vector. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at vector. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at vector
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA