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词汇 vector
释义 vector
noun[ C ]
 specializeduk /ˈvek.tər/ us /ˈvek.tɚ/

vectornoun[C] (QUANTITY)


mathematics, physics (alsovector quantity)
a quantity that has both size and direction:
We use vectors to, for example, describe the velocity of moving objects.
In graphical representation, a vector is drawn as an arrow, with the arrow having both a magnitude (how long it is) and a direction (the direction in which it points).
Momentum is a vector quantity but inertia is not.
Compare
scalar
In navigation the vectors representing each ship's course and speed are plotted, to determine if the ships are likely to collide.
Vector quantities include velocity and direction.
He used arrowed lines to represent each vector quantity.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physics: energy, force & power
animal magnetism
anti-gravity
attract
attraction
ballistic
entropic
entropically
equilibrant
erg
excited
geothermal
inertia
jet propulsion
preatomic
propulsive
radiant energy
self-propulsion
sine curve
the sound barrier
thermodynamics

vectornoun[C] (OF DISEASE)


biology
an insect or animal that carries a disease from one animal or plant to another: (在动物或植物之间传播疾病的)昆虫媒介,传病媒介
vector ofMosquitoes are the vectors of malaria.蚊子是疟疾的传播媒介。
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Passing on illness & causing disease
aerosolize
avirulent
communicability
community transmission
contact tracer
contagion
contagious
epidemic
fester
infect
infestation
interepidemic
interpandemic
mediastinum
non-communicable
skin to skinidiom
spreader
super-spreader
transferable
transmissibility
vector
adjective[ before noun ]
 specializeduk /ˈvek.tər/ us /ˈvek.tɚ/
computing
A vector image is one that can be made into any size without its quality being affected:
You can export a map either as a bitmap or as a vector file.
Vector images can be enlarged or shrunk.
The image is editable as long as it remains in a vector format.
Compare

If you are using a stock vector image, it is probably also being used by someone somewhere else in the world.
The software converted both text and graphics into vector files, when instructed to do so.
Graphics files that are saved in vector formats are stored as points, lines, and mathematical formulae describing the shapes that make up a drawing.
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Computer concepts
2FA
2SV
3-D printing
adaptive learning
additive manufacturing
haptics
HCI
hex
hexadecimal
hill climbing
infection
stack
tebibyte
telematic
telematics
telerobotics
teraflop
texture
wan
word processing

vector | American Dictionary


vector
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvek·tər/
physics
a representation of something that has both direction and size, usually an arrow whose direction represents direction and length represents size
 vector quantityphysics
A vector quantity is something that can be represented by a vector.

Examples of vector


vector
If it is to take the eye with it, the line becomes a series of vectors.
Obvious potential concerns are the immune and inflammatory responses to viral vectors.
We hypothesized that such viral vectors, immobilized on a solid surface, could infect cells only at the contact site between the solid surface and cells.
They construct upon that set of states the results of observations that may be represented as vectors in a suitable space.
The main vectors of introduction were, in decreasing order, host plants (accounting for nearly half of the introductions), stored products and wood material.
The mean vectors were then calculated for each of the nine releases, that is, with pooled recapture data from the first and second recapture period.
Scientists would like to suppress the ability of insects to serve as vectors of human and animal pathogens.
In some areas, multiple malaria vectors occur sympatrically.
Probability models to facilitate declaration of pest-free status that are vectors of disease.
The articles in this volume represent an introduction to those systems, their vectors, actors and structures.
What is the probability that these vectors do not form a d-simplex?
Each of the following ten row vectors represents a facet of our polytope.
However, this basis may be quite large, or may contain vectors with large components.
Birds are obviously seed-dispersal vectors, but the multi-seeded infructescences frequently entangle birds, often fatally.
Obviously for r2 close to 1, the two vectors will be highly correlated, and y will be small.
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Collocations withvector


vector

These are words often used in combination with vector.

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attack vector
For each class, a specific attack vector is described here.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
basis vector
The choice is motivated by the fact that the first basis vector represents the most prominent term co-occurrence - and therefore the most dominant concept - in that cluster.
column vector
A vector denoted by c is regarded as a column vector.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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