Vectors need not correspond to a physical quantity; anything can be a vector space as long as vector addition and scalar multiplication is defined.
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Vector
/ˈvɛktɚ/
Synonyms for "vector" (98 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Noun(4 words)
aerial infectionair lineairborne infectionairlineargumentaxisazimuthbeelinebiological vectorcarrierchordcommunicabilitycompass bearingcompass directioncontagioncontagiousness
Strong matches (29)
Noun(8 words)
containerdirected quantitydirectional quantitydisplacementencodeforce vectorforce vectorsin the direction of
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (49)
infectiousnesslee sidemagnetic bearingmechanical vectornormalperpendicularphytogenic infectionprimary infectionpyogenic infectionradiusradius vectorrelative bearingright linesecantsecondary infectionsegmentshortcutsidestraightstraight course
Show 15 more words
straight linestraight stretchstraightawaystreamlinesubclinical infectiontacktainttangenttransversaltrue bearingvehicleviruswaterborne infectionweather sidezoogenic infection
Noun(12 words)
Adjective(1 words)
scalar quantity
Preposition(1 words)
toward earth
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
More specific
15 entriesLyme diseaseWest Nile viruscoordinate vectordengue feverdynamic arrayfly vectorgrowable arraymalariamosquito vectorposition vectorresizable arraytick vectorunit vectorvelocity vectorzero vector
Collocations
12 entriesunit vectorvector a diseasevector controlvector denguevector directionvector diseasevector graphicsvector magnitudevector malariavector quantityvectored diseasezero vector
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
102 translations across 48 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- wektor noun (directed quantity)
Arabic
4 entries- أَشِعَّةٌ noun (directed quantity)
- شُعاعٌ noun (directed quantity)
- مُتَّجِهاتٌ noun (directed quantity)
- مُتَّجِهٌ noun (directed quantity)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вектор noun (directed quantity)
- вектор noun (programming: kind of array)
- едномерна матрица noun (programming: kind of array)
- преносител noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Catalan
1 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 向量 noun (directed quantity)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 向量 noun (directed quantity)
- 病媒 noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- 矢量 noun (directed quantity)
Czech
4 entries- přenašeč noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (programming: kind of array)
Danish
1 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
Dutch
1 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
Esperanto
1 entries- vektoro noun (directed quantity)
Finnish
4 entries- tartunnanlevittäjä noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- taudinkantaja noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektori noun (directed quantity)
- vektori noun (programming: kind of array)
French
2 entries- vecteur noun (directed quantity)
- vecteur noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Galician
2 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (programming: kind of array)
Georgian
3 entries- ვექტორი noun (directed quantity)
- ვექტორი noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- ვექტორი noun (programming: kind of array)
German
1 entries- Vektor noun (directed quantity)
Greek
2 entries- διάνυσμα noun (directed quantity)
- φορέας noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Hebrew
2 entries- וקטור noun (directed quantity)
- וקטור noun (programming: kind of array)
Hindi
2 entries- रोगवाहक noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- सदिश noun (directed quantity)
Hungarian
4 entries- bacilusgazda noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- betegséghordozó noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Icelandic
1 entries- vigur noun (directed quantity)
Ido
1 entries- vektoro noun (directed quantity)
Irish
2 entries- veicteoir noun (directed quantity)
- veicteoir noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Italian
2 entries- vettore noun (directed quantity)
- vettore noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Japanese
2 entries- ベクター noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- ベクトル noun (directed quantity)
Khmer
2 entries- វ៉ិចទ័រ noun (directed quantity)
- វ៉ិចទ័រ noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Korean
2 entries- 벡터 noun (directed quantity)
- 벡터 noun (programming: kind of array)
Latvian
3 entries- vektors noun (directed quantity)
- vektors noun (programming: kind of array)
- vektōrs noun (directed quantity)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vektorius noun (directed quantity)
Malay
3 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (programming: kind of array)
Marathi
1 entries- सदिश noun (directed quantity)
Mongolian
1 entries- чиглэл noun (directed quantity)
Māori
1 entries- kaitītaritari noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Persian
1 entries- بردار noun (directed quantity)
Polish
3 entries- przenosiciel noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- wektor noun (directed quantity)
- wektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Portuguese
4 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vetor noun (directed quantity)
- vetor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vetor noun (programming: kind of array)
Romanian
2 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (programming: kind of array)
Russian
4 entries- ве́ктор noun (directed quantity)
- ве́ктор noun (programming: kind of array)
- масси́в noun (programming: kind of array)
- перено́счик noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- вектор noun (directed quantity)
Slovene
1 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
Spanish
3 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vector noun (programming: kind of array)
Swedish
1 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
Tagalog
2 entries- bektor noun (directed quantity)
- tugano noun (directed quantity)
Tamil
1 entries- திசையன் noun (directed quantity)
Thai
1 entries- เวกเตอร์ noun (directed quantity)
Turkish
2 entries- vektör noun (directed quantity)
- yöney noun (directed quantity)
Vietnamese
4 entries- hướng lượng noun (directed quantity)
- mảng một chiều noun (programming: kind of array)
- đại lượng có hướng noun (directed quantity)
- đại lượng hữu hướng noun (directed quantity)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
A vector is a unit vector if its norm is 1.
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The dimension of a vector space equals the largest number of its elements that can be linearly independent.
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Every vector space has a basis.
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Showing 4 of 22 available sentences.