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Definition vector
Etymology
From Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from veh? (“I carry, I transport, I bear”).
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The use of the term “vector” in mathematics was introduced by William Rowan Hamilton when he introduced the quaternion product.
Noun
vector (plural vectors)
- (mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
- (mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points.
- (mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
- (aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
- (epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
- (sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
- (psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
- 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.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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.
- (programming) A one-dimensional array.
- (computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
- (molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
Verb
vector (third-person singular simple present vectors, present participle vectoring, simple past and past participle vectored)
- To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
- (computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
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