vector

Meaning

1. A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
2. An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.
3. Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
4. A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
5. A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
6. A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
7. A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. A kind of dynamically resizable array.
11. A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
12. A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
13. Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)

vectorial

guidanuce

delivery system

delivery vehicle

intermediary agent

agency

intermediate medium

agent

bearing

Frequency

Hyphenated as

vec‧tor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɛktə/

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.

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