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noun 
  1. (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
  2. (context, aviation) a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
  3. (medicine, biology) a carrier of a disease-causing agent
  4. (sociology) a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
  5. 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
  6. (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 dereference, deferenced and jump, jumped to during the execution of an interrupt
  7. (complang) A data structure consisting of a series of contiguous storage location, storage locations which are accessed via an integer offset from the address of the first storage location, thereby allowing a collection of values which utilize a common storage layout to be referenced either individually or in aggregate, as desired.
  8. (complang) A one-dimensional array.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: koers
  • French: vecteur
  • German: Vektor
  • Italian: vettore
  • Spanish: vector
verb 
  1. to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.
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