Vector

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Mathematics A quantity, such as velocity, completely specified by a magnitude and a direction.
  • n. Mathematics A one-dimensional array.
  • n. Mathematics An element of a vector space.
  • n. Pathology An organism, such as a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another.
  • n. Genetics A bacteriophage, plasmid, or other agent that transfers genetic material from one cell to another.
  • n. A force or influence.
  • n. A course or direction, as of an airplane.
  • v. To guide (a pilot or aircraft, for example) by means of radio communication according to vectors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
  • n. An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points.
  • n. Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
  • n. A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
  • n. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
  • n. A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
  • n. A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A one-dimensional array.
  • v. To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as radius vector.
  • n. A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same and their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In quaternions, a quantity which, being added to any point of space, gives as the sum that point which is at a certain distance in a certain direction from the first.
  • n. Henceā€” A directive quantity; a quantity determined by two numbers giving its direction and a third giving its magnitude.
  • n. Same as radius vector. See radius.
  • Of the nature of or concerned with vectors.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
  • n. (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
  • n. any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
  • n. a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
  • Verb Form
    vectored    vectoring    vectors   
    Variant
    radius vector    scalar   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hector    Rector    Schechter    collector    connecter    connector    defector    detector    director    erector   
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    matrix    parameter    measurement    input    frequency    velocity    x    equation    data    coefficient