English Explanatory Dictionary

vector

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
  2. Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
  3. An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.
  4. A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
  5. A kind of dynamically resizable array.
  6. 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.
  7. A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
  8. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
  9. A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
  10. A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
  11. A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
  12. Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
verb
  1. To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
  2. To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɛktə/ vĕk'tər /ˈvɛktɚ/ en-us-vector.ogg en-au-vector.ogg

Word forms

vector vectors vectoring vectored

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

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

Translations

Afrikaans: wektor Arabic: مُتَّجِهٌ Arabic: مُتَّجِهاتٌ Arabic: شُعاعٌ Arabic: أَشِعَّةٌ Arabic: ناقِلٌ Arabic: نَواقِلُ Bulgarian: вектор Bulgarian: преносител Bulgarian: едномерна матрица Catalan: vector Chinese Cantonese: 向量 Chinese Mandarin: 向量 Chinese Mandarin: 矢量 Chinese Mandarin: 病媒 Czech: vektor Czech: přenašeč Danish: vektor Dutch: vector Esperanto: vektoro Finnish: vektori Finnish: taudinkantaja Finnish: tartunnanlevittäjä French: vecteur Galician: vector Georgian: ვექტორი German: Vektor Greek: διάνυσμα Greek: φορέας Hebrew: וקטור Hindi: सदिश Hindi: रोगवाहक Hungarian: vektor Hungarian: bacilusgazda Hungarian: betegséghordozó Icelandic: vigur Ido: vektoro Irish: veicteoir Italian: vettore Japanese: ベクトル Japanese: ベクター Khmer: វ៉ិចទ័រ Korean: 벡터 Latvian: vektors Latvian: vektōrs Lithuanian: vektorius Malay: vektor Marathi: सदिश Mongolian: чиглэл Norwegian Bokmål: vektor Norwegian Nynorsk: vektor Persian: بردار Polish: wektor Polish: przenosiciel Portuguese: vector Portuguese: vetor Romanian: vector Russian: ве́ктор Russian: перено́счик Russian: масси́в Serbo-Croatian: вектор Serbo-Croatian: vektor Slovene: vektor
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