| Definitions | | vector |
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noun
- (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
- (context, aviation) a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
- (medicine, biology) a carrier of a disease-causing agent
- (sociology) a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
- 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
- (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
- (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.
- (complang) A one-dimensional array.
Translations: - Dutch: koers
- French: vecteur
- German: Vektor
- Italian: vettore
- Spanish: vector
verb
- to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.
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