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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-tōr English vector Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“to carry, transport, 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
Noun
vector (plural vectors)
- (mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
- Coordinate term: rotor
- Hypernym: tensor
Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.
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) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
- (physics) A physical quantity with a coordinate-independent magnitude but a spatial direction dependent on the observer's orientation.
electric field is a vector quantity because if its physical strength is exactly , its measured values might be or depending on if the field at that point is exerting force towards or away from the observer.
- (mathematics, computing) An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix.
- Hypernym: matrix
Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.
2003 February 26, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, The PC Graphics Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 62:A row vector is a matrix whose M dimension is 1. In fact, a row vector is a matrix consisting of a single row, and a column vector a matrix consisting of a single column.
2011 March 8, Lee Lanier, Advanced Maya Texturing and Lighting, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 97:Color is stored as a vector attribute (R, G, B).
2022 February 9, Gerassimos Barlas, Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 398:GPU cores are essentially vector-processing units, capable of applying the same instruction on a large collection of operands.
- (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.
- (computer science) 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 […]
- (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.
- (computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
- Coordinate term: raster
a vector image, vector graphics
- (epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
- (molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
- (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], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 September 2026: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. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- (history) Forces, developments, phenomena, processes, systems, etc. which influence the trajectory of history (e.g. imperialism)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
directed quantity
- Afrikaans: wektor
- Arabic: مُتَّجِه m (muttajih), مُتَّجِهات m pl (muttajihāt), شُعاع m (šuʕāʕ), أَشِعَّة m pl (ʔašiʕʕa)
- Bulgarian: вектор m (vektor)
- Catalan: vector m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 向量 (hoeng3 loeng6)
- Mandarin: 向量 (zh) (xiàngliàng), 矢量 (zh) (shǐliàng)
- Czech: vektor (cs) m
- Danish: vektor c
- Dutch: vector (nl) m
- Esperanto: vektoro
- Finnish: vektori (fi)
- French: vecteur (fr) m
- Galician: vector (gl) m
- Georgian: ვექტორი (vekṭori)
- German: Vektor (de) m
- Greek: διάνυσμα (el) n (diánysma)
- Hebrew: וקטור (he) m (vektór)
- Hindi: सदिश f (sadiś)
- Hungarian: vektor (hu)
- Icelandic: vigur
- Ido: vektoro (io)
- Irish: veicteoir m
- Italian: vettore (it) m
- Japanese: ベクトル (ja) (bekutoru)
- Khmer: វ៉ិចទ័រ (km) (vəctɔə)
- Korean: 벡터 (bekteo)
- Latvian: vektors, vektōrs m
- Lithuanian: vektorius (lt) m
- Malay: vektor
- Māori: pere
- Marathi: सदिश (sadiś)
- Mongolian: чиглэл (mn) (čiglel)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vektor (no) m
- Nynorsk: vektor m
- Persian: بردار (fa)
- Polish: wektor (pl) m
- Portuguese: vector (pt) m (Portugal), vetor (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: vector (ro) m
- Russian: ве́ктор (ru) m (véktor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вектор m
- Latin: vektor (sh) m
- Slovene: vektor (sl) m
- Spanish: vector (es) m
- Swedish: vektor (sv) c
- Tagalog: tugano, bektor
- Tamil: திசையன் (ta) (ticaiyaṉ)
- Thai: เวกเตอร์ (vék-dtə̂ə)
- Turkish: vektör (tr), yöney (tr)
- Vietnamese: đại lượng có hướng, đại lượng hữu hướng, hướng lượng
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aviation: chosen course or direction for motion carrier of a disease-causing agent sociology: person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth in the personality way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text memory address containing the address of a code entry point programming: kind of array DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another Verb
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
Translations
set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point References
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vectōrem.
Pronunciation
Noun
vector m (plural vectors)
- vector
Derived terms
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Pronunciation
Noun
vector m (plural vectoren, diminutive vectortje n)
- (mathematics) vector, an element of a vector space
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Galician vector Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbetˈtoɾ/ [ˌbet̪ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
Noun
vector m (plural vectores)
- vector
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Latin vector From vehō (“carry, bear, convey; ride”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
vector m (genitive vectōris, feminine vectrīx); third declension
- bearer, carrier
- passenger
- (mathematics, physics) vector
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
Verb
vector
- first-person singular present passive indicative of vectō
References
- “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)
Portuguese
Noun
vector m (plural vectores)
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of vetor; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vecteur, Latin vector.
Noun
vector m (plural vectori)
- vector
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Spanish vector Learned borrowing from Latin vector.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɡˈtoɾ/ [beɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: vec‧tor
Noun
vector m (plural vectores)
- vector
Derived terms
Further reading
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