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" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
Related word relations
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More general
7 entriesMore specific
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
coordinate
2 entriesderived
70 entriesShowing 16 of 70 words.
has a
1 entrieshas context
12 entriesis a
6 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
130 translations across 49 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)
- курс noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
Catalan
3 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- vector noun (DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another)
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
2 entries- koers noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- vector noun (directed quantity)
Esperanto
1 entries- vektoro noun (directed quantity)
Finnish
4 entries- kurssi noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- levittäjä noun (sociology: person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme)
- tartunnanlevittäjä noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- taudinkantaja noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
French
2 entries- vecteur noun (directed quantity)
- vecteur noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
Galician
3 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- vector noun (programming: kind of array)
Georgian
4 entries- ვექტორი noun (directed quantity)
- ვექტორი noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- ვექტორი noun (programming: kind of array)
- კურსი noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
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
4 entries- veicteoir noun (directed quantity)
- veicteoir noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- veicteoir noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- veicteoir noun (DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another)
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
4 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- 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
3 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vektor noun (DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another)
Persian
1 entries- بردار noun (directed quantity)
Polish
4 entries- przenosiciel noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- wektor noun (directed quantity)
- wektor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- wektor noun (memory address containing the address of a code entry point)
Portuguese
4 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- vetor noun (directed quantity)
- vetor noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
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)
- курс noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- масси́в noun (programming: kind of array)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- вектор noun (directed quantity)
Slovene
1 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
Spanish
4 entries- vector noun (directed quantity)
- vector noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
- vector noun (carrier of a disease-causing agent)
- vector noun (programming: kind of array)
Swedish
2 entries- vektor noun (directed quantity)
- vektor noun (aviation: chosen course or direction for motion)
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)
Welsh
1 entries- fectoru verb (set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point)
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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