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Vector
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- 1 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."
- 2 (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell wordnet
- 3 A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.; Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
"The vectors in #123;#92;mathbbQ#125;#91;X#93; are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is #92;textstylex#123;42#125;#43;#92;frac1#123;137#125;x-1."
- 4 a variable quantity that can be resolved into components wordnet
- 5 A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.; An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.
"Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing."
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- 6 any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease wordnet
- 7 A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.; A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
- 8 a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction wordnet
- 9 A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.; The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text.
- 10 A kind of dynamically resizable array.
"To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]"
- 11 A kind of dynamically resizable array.; 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.
- 12 A kind of dynamically resizable array.; A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics. attributive
"a vector image, vector graphics"
- 13 A carrier of a disease-causing agent.; A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
- 14 A carrier of a disease-causing agent.; A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
"These days, their primary job is to insist that Facebook is a fun place to share baby photos and sell old couches, not a vector for hate speech, misinformation, and violent extremist propaganda."
- 15 A carrier of a disease-causing agent.; A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
- 16 Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
- 1 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."
- 2 To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I 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 Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I 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.
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