Vector

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WOTD - 3 June 2006    

English

Noun

Vector (plural Vectors)
  1. (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
  2. (aviation) a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
  3. (epidemiology) a carrier of a disease-causing agent
  4. (sociology) a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
  5. (psychology) 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. (computing) (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. (programming) A one-dimensional array.

Notes

  • (programming) The term vector is used loosely when the indices are not (either positive or non-negative) integers.

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Verb

Vector (third-person singular simple present Vectors, present participle Vectoring, simple past and past participle Vectored)

  1. to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.
    • 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 Latin vector (“carrier”), from vehere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

directed quantity (1)
chosen course or direction for motion (2)
carrier of a disease-causing agent (3)
person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme (4)
way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text
memory address containing the address of a code entry point
data structure consisting of a series of contiguous storage locations which are accessed via an integer offset
one-dimensional array

Verb

to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point

References

  • The New Oxford Dictionary of English

Anagrams

Dutch

Noun

vector m (Plural: vectoren, diminutive: vectortje)

  1. (mathematics) an element of a vector space

Latin

Verb

vector

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vectō


Spanish

Noun

  1. vector

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