vector
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti
Proto-Italic *weɣō
Latin vehō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin vectorlbor.
English vector
Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“to carry, transport, 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.
Inflected forms:
form: vectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vectors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vectoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vectored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vectored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
pos: noun
examples: Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.
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.
gloss: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
pos: noun
examples: Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.
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.
Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).
GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.
gloss: A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
pos: noun
examples: I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
gloss: A kind of dynamically resizable array.
pos: noun
examples: To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]
gloss: A kind of dynamically resizable array.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of dynamically resizable array.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a vector image, vector graphics
gloss: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
pos: noun
gloss: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
pos: noun
gloss: Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
pos: noun
gloss: To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
pos: verb
examples: […] if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.
gloss: To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
pos: verb
Derived words: 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
thrust vectoring
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: wektor
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَّجِهٌ
roman: muttajihun
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَّجِهاتٌ
roman: muttajihātun
lang: Arabic
word: شُعاعٌ
roman: šuʕāʕun
lang: Arabic
word: أَشِعَّةٌ
roman: ʔašiʕʕatun
lang: Bulgarian
word: вектор
roman: vektor
lang: Catalan
word: vector
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 向量
roman: hoeng³ loeng⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 向量
roman: xiàngliàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 矢量
roman: shǐliàng
lang: Czech
word: vektor
lang: Danish
word: vektor
lang: Dutch
word: vector
lang: Esperanto
word: vektoro
lang: Finnish
word: vektori
lang: French
word: vecteur
lang: Galician
word: vector
lang: Georgian
word: ვექტორი
roman: vekṭori
lang: German
word: Vektor
lang: Greek
word: διάνυσμα
roman: diánysma
lang: Hebrew
word: וקטור
roman: vektór
lang: Hindi
word: सदिश
roman: sadiś
lang: Hungarian
word: vektor
lang: Icelandic
word: vigur
lang: Ido
word: vektoro
lang: Irish
word: veicteoir
lang: Italian
word: vettore
lang: Japanese
word: ベクトル
roman: bekutoru
lang: Khmer
word: វ៉ិចទ័រ
roman: vəctɔə
lang: Korean
word: 벡터
roman: bekteo
lang: Latvian
word: vektors
lang: Latvian
word: vektōrs
lang: Lithuanian
word: vektorius
lang: Malay
word: vektor
lang: Marathi
word: सदिश
roman: sadiś
lang: Mongolian
word: чиглэл
roman: čiglel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vektor
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vektor
lang: Persian
word: بردار
lang: Polish
word: wektor
lang: Portuguese
word: vector
lang: Portuguese
word: vetor
lang: Romanian
word: vector
lang: Russian
word: ве́ктор
roman: véktor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вектор
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vektor
lang: Slovene
word: vektor
lang: Spanish
word: vector
lang: Swedish
word: vektor
lang: Tagalog
word: tugano
lang: Tagalog
word: bektor
lang: Tamil
word: திசையன்
roman: ticaiyaṉ
lang: Thai
word: เวกเตอร์
roman: vék-dtə̂ə
lang: Turkish
word: vektör
lang: Turkish
word: yöney
lang: Vietnamese
word: đại lượng có hướng
lang: Vietnamese
word: đại lượng hữu hướng
lang: Vietnamese
word: hướng lượng
lang: Arabic
word: ناقِلٌ
roman: nāqilun
lang: Arabic
word: نَواقِلُ
roman: nawāqilu
lang: Bulgarian
word: преносител
roman: prenositel
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 病媒
roman: bìngméi
lang: Czech
word: přenašeč
lang: Czech
word: vektor
lang: Finnish
word: taudinkantaja
lang: Finnish
word: tartunnanlevittäjä
lang: French
word: vecteur
lang: Georgian
word: ვექტორი
roman: vekṭori
lang: Greek
word: φορέας
roman: foréas
lang: Hindi
word: रोगवाहक
roman: rogvāhak
lang: Hungarian
word: bacilusgazda
lang: Hungarian
word: betegséghordozó
lang: Hungarian
word: vektor
lang: Irish
word: veicteoir
lang: Italian
word: vettore
lang: Japanese
word: ベクター
roman: bekutā
lang: Khmer
word: វ៉ិចទ័រ
roman: vəctɔə
lang: Malay
word: vektor
lang: Māori
word: kaitītaritari
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vektor
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vektor
lang: Polish
word: przenosiciel
lang: Polish
word: wektor
lang: Portuguese
word: vetor
lang: Russian
word: перено́счик
roman: perenósčik
lang: Spanish
word: vector
lang: Bulgarian
word: вектор
roman: vektor
lang: Bulgarian
word: едномерна матрица
roman: ednomerna matrica
lang: Czech
word: vektor
lang: Finnish
word: vektori
lang: Galician
word: vector
lang: Georgian
word: ვექტორი
roman: vekṭori
lang: Hebrew
word: וקטור
roman: vektór
lang: Korean
word: 벡터
roman: bekteo
lang: Latvian
word: vektors
lang: Malay
word: vektor
lang: Portuguese
word: vetor
lang: Romanian
word: vector
lang: Russian
word: ве́ктор
roman: véktor
lang: Russian
word: масси́в
roman: massív
lang: Spanish
word: vector
lang: Vietnamese
word: mảng một chiều