vector

Meaning

Noun

1. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
2. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
3. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
4. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
5. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
6. A kind of dynamically resizable array.
7. A kind of dynamically resizable array.
8. (attributive) A kind of dynamically resizable array.
9. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
10. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
11. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
12. Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)

Verb

1. To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
2. To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.

Synonyms

vectorial

transmitter

carrier

course

dequeue

direction

guidance

heading

instrumentality

matrix

medium

ray

tensor

v

✌️

vehicle

guidanuce

intermedium

mediacy

delivery system

delivery vehicle

intermediary agent

agency

intermediate medium

agent

bearing

Translations

vecteur

vector

Vektor

vettore

vector

vector

vetor

vector

διάνυσμα

vektör

yöney

vectoriel

άνυσμα

koers

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɛktə/

Etymology

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.