vector
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I 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.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: vec‧tor
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɛktə/
- (US) enPR: vĕk'tər, IPA(key): /ˈvɛktɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Noun edit
vector (plural vectors)
- (mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
- Hypernym: tensor
- 1914, The New Student's Reference Work:
- 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.
- (mathematics) An ordered tuple representing such.
- (mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
- The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
- (aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
- 2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:
- I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.
- (epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
- (sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
- 2020 October 12, Andrew Marantz, “Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself”, in The New Yorker[1]:
- 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.
- (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 kind of dynamically resizable array.
- 2004, Jesse Liberty, Bradley L. Jones, Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, page 694:
- To create a vector of students in a class, you will want the vector to be large enough […]
- (computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
- Coordinate term: raster
- a vector image, vector graphics
- (molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
- (figurative) Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
Hyponyms edit
- axial vector
- Burgers vector
- change vector
- column vector
- Darboux vector
- displacement vector
- Euclidean vector
- gradient vector
- gyrovector
- Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
- normal vector
- null vector
- position vector
- Poynting vector
- poxvector
- random vector
- row vector
- spin vector (spinor)
- tangent vector
- unit vector
- wave vector
Derived terms edit
- adenovector
- attack vector
- axial vector
- biovector
- bitvector
- bivector
- characteristic vector
- code vector
- covector
- direction vector
- distance vector
- four-vector
- intermediate vector boson
- isovector
- Killing vector field
- minivector
- multivector
- nanovector
- normed vector space
- paravector
- Pauli vector
- phasor
- polarization vector
- pseudovector
- quadrivector
- radius vector
- real vector space
- retrovector
- revector
- shuttle vector
- statevector
- subvector
- supervector
- support vector machine
- topological vector space
- transvector
- trivector
- vectoral
- vector algebra
- vector-borne
- vector boson
- vector bundle
- vectorcardiogram
- vectorcardiography
- vector field
- vector function
- vectorial
- vectorially
- vector image
- vectorisation
- vectorise
- vectorize
- vectorless
- vectorlike
- vectorpotential
- vector product
- vectorscope
- vector space
- vector sum
- vector verb
- vectorwise
- word vector
- zero vector
Translations edit
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Verb edit
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.
- 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.
- (computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
References edit
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vectōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectors)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectoren, diminutive vectortje n)
- (mathematics) vector, an element of a vector space
Derived terms edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectores)
Derived terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ek.tor/, [ˈu̯ɛkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvek.tor/, [ˈvɛkt̪or]
Noun edit
vector m (genitive vectōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vector | vectōrēs |
Genitive | vectōris | vectōrum |
Dative | vectōrī | vectōribus |
Accusative | vectōrem | vectōrēs |
Ablative | vectōre | vectōribus |
Vocative | vector | vectōrēs |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Verb edit
vector
References edit
- “vector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- passengers: vectores (Phil. 7. 9. 27)
- passengers: vectores (Phil. 7. 9. 27)
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectores)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of vetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vecteur, Latin vector.
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectori)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) vector | vectorul | (niște) vectori | vectorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) vector | vectorului | (unor) vectori | vectorilor |
vocative | vectorule | vectorilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vector m (plural vectores)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014