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Within Vinony's link graph, vector is referenced by 384 other articles, and connects out to Euclidean vector, physical quantity and Euclidean space.
It is catalogued under topics including Accuracy disputes from November 2021, Broad-concept articles and Vectors (mathematics and physics).
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- multivector
- Part of
- vector space
- Has part
- Euclidean vector
- Image
- Addition af vektorer.png
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Vectors
- different from
- Vektor
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
In mathematics and physics, a vector is a generalization of a single number. It may denote a vector quantity, i.e., physical quantity that cannot be expressed by a single scalar quantity. The term may also be used to refer to elements of vector spaces, that can be added together and multiplied ("scaled") by scalars. In some contexts, vectors are tuples, which are finite sequences (of numbers or other objects) of a fixed length.
Historically, vectors were introduced in geometry and physics (typically in mechanics) for quantities that have both a magnitude and a direction, such as displacements, forces and velocity. Such quantities are represented by geometric vectors in the same way as distances, masses and time are represented by real numbers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vector” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.