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Vinony

vector

noun

  1. mathematical concept combining direction and magnitude
  2. spreader of infectious disease
  3. in physics, a value that has both magnitude and direction
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈvɛktə/ / /ˈvɛktɚ/

noun

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.

  1. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

    “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.”

  2. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

    “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.”

  3. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

    “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.”

  4. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

    “I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.”

  5. A kind of dynamically resizable array.

    “To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]”

  6. A kind of dynamically resizable array.
  7. A kind of dynamically resizable array.

    “a vector image, vector graphics”

  8. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
  9. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.

    “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.”

  10. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
  11. Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)

verb

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.

  1. To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.

    “[…] if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.”

  2. To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.