vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛktə/
enpr: vĕk'tər
ipa: /ˈvɛktɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vectors
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.
Senses: examples: text: Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.
text: As examples of vector quantities may be mentioned the distance between any two given points, a velocity, a force, an acceleration, angular velocity, intensity of magnetization flux of heat.
ref: 1914, The New Student's Reference Work:
text: I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
ref: 2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
coordinate_terms: rotor
hypernyms: tensor
glosses: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
examples: text: 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.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
coordinate_terms: rotor
hypernyms: tensor
glosses: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
examples: text: Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.
text: A row vector is a matrix whose M dimension is 1. In fact, a row vector is a matrix consisting of a single row, and a column vector a matrix consisting of a single column.
ref: 2003 February 26, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).
ref: 2011 March 8, Lee Lanier, Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 97:
text: GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.
ref: 2022 February 9, Gerassimos Barlas, Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 398:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
coordinate_terms: rotor
hypernyms: tensor
matrix
glosses: 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.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
coordinate_terms: rotor
hypernyms: tensor
glosses: 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.
topics: human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: rotor
hypernyms: tensor
glosses: 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.
examples: text: To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]
ref: 2004, Jesse Liberty, Bradley L. Jones, Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, page 694:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A kind of dynamically resizable array.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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.
qualifier: operating systems
examples: text: a vector image, vector graphics
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A kind of dynamically resizable array.
A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
coordinate_terms: raster
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
qualifier: molecular biology
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker:
topics: epidemiology
human-sciences
medicine
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
topics: epidemiology
human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
Hyponyms: word: axial vector
word: Burgers vector
word: change vector
word: column vector
word: Darboux vector
word: displacement vector
word: Euclidean vector
word: gradient vector
word: gyrovector
word: irrotational vector
word: Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
word: normal vector
word: null vector
word: position vector
word: poxvector
word: Poynting vector
word: random vector
word: row vector
english: spinor
translation: spinor
word: spin vector
word: tangent vector
word: unit vector
word: wave vector
Derived terms: adenovector
attack vector
axial vector
basis vector
biovector
bitvector
bivector
characteristic vector
code vector
covector
direction vector
distance vector
four-vector
intermediate vector boson
isovector
Killing vector field
minivector
multivector
nanovector
net magnetization vector
normed vector space
paravector
Pauli vector
phasor
polarization vector
pseudovector
quadrivector
radius vector
real vector space
retrovector
revector
shuttle vector
statevector
subvector
supervector
support vector machine
topological vector space
transvector
trivector
vectoral
vector algebra
vector-borne
vector boson
vector bundle
vector calculus
vectorcardiogram
vectorcardiography
vector clock
vector field
vector function
vectorial
vectorially
vector image
vectorisation
vectorise
vectorization
vectorize
vectorless
vectorlike
vectorpotential
vector product
vectorscope
vector space
vector sum
vector verb
vectorwise
viral vector
word vector
zero vector