Vector
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Mathematics and Physics
- An element in a vector space
- Vector (spatial), an object defined by both magnitude and direction
- Probability vector
Philosophy
- Truth Vectors
Computer Science
- A List or one-dimensional array (and a data structure, based on an array, which is able to grow or shrink as needed, though not efficiently)
- Vector processor, a computer processor which works on arrays of several numbers at once
- Dope vector
- Vector graphics, computer graphics defined by geometric primitives instead of pixels
- Vector (computing), the method that malicious code (viruses, etc) uses to propagate itself
Biology
- A vector in biology has many several meanings:
- *An organism that transmits disease by conveying pathogens from one host to another
- *A virus used to deliver genetic material into a cell
- *A piece of DNA meant to carry DNA fragments into a host cell
Miscellaneous
- Vector Institute, another name for the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology
- The Vector, the New Jersey Institute of Technology's school newspaper
- Vector Limited, a New Zealand multi-network infrastructure company
- Vector Marketing, the multi-level marketing firm that sells Cutco knives
- Vector (food) is a cereal manufactured by Kellogg's
- Vector Supercars, or a model they once produced
- Vector, the capital of the Empire in the videogame Final Fantasy VI
- Vector the Crocodile, a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of videogames
- Figaro Continental Vector, the city that covers half of the planet Eae in the videogame and animated series, Monkeyfellas
- Vector, a 1970 novel by Henry Sutton
- Vector (band), a 1980s New Wave/Rock band
- Vector is the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
- Vector magazine is the journal of the British APL Association
- Vectors are invisible weapon-like hands of the Diclonius in the anime series Elfen Lied.
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