Terms and definitions are being added all the time. If you have comments, corrections, or suggested additions, please send them to Walt Howe using the form at the end of the Glossary . My thanks for the many suggestions that already have been included. See how to link to terms in the glossary from your web page. In mathematics and physics, a vector is a line which has a defined starting point, a designated direction and a specified distance.
Vector graphics are line-based graphics.
The lines and the colors of areas enclosed by the lines make up the picture. Microsoft SYLK is an example of a pure vector format. More commonly used are bitmap files and hybrids of vector and bitmap known as metafiles . The gopher-based search engine that worked with an index of gopher menus around the world. It supposedly is an acronym for Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives, but since the archie FTP search preceded it in time, the name pretty obviously came before the acronym.