Vector

Noun

 * 1)  a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
 * 2)  a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
 * 3)  a carrier of a disease-causing agent
 * 4)  a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
 * 5)  a recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality
 * 6) the way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others
 * 7)  (operating systems) 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
 * 8)  A one-dimensional array.
 * 1)  A one-dimensional array.

Derived terms

 * vectorial
 * vectorially
 * vectorize
 * change vector
 * unit vector
 * vector algebra
 * vector field
 * vector function
 * vector product
 * vector space

Related terms

 * tuple
 * ones based indexing
 * zero based indexing

Verb

 * 1) to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.
 * 2) * 1994, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
 * ...if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.

Thesaurus
aerial infection, air line, airborne infection, axis, azimuth, beeline, biological vector, carrier, chord, communicability, compass bearing, compass direction, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, course, cryptogenic infection, diagonal, diameter, direct infection, direct line, directrix, droplet infection, dust infection, edge, epidemiology, great-circle course, hand infection, heading, indirect infection, infection, infectiousness, lee side, magnetic bearing, mechanical vector, normal, perpendicular, phytogenic infection, primary infection, pyogenic infection, radius, radius vector, relative bearing, right line, secant, secondary infection, segment, shortcut, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subclinical infection, tack, taint, tangent, transversal, true bearing, vehicle, virus, waterborne infection, weather side, zoogenic infection

Etymology
From vector:, from vehere:.

Noun

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 * Latvian: vektors
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Verb

 * Finnish: asettaa kurssi

Anagrams

 * covert

Noun
vector m (Plural: vectoren, diminutive: vectortje)


 * 1)  an element of a vector space

Noun

 * 1) vector

Related terms

 * vectorial

Derived terms

 * autovector
 * eigenvector
 * vector propio
 * vector unitario