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noun
1.
Mathematics.
a.
b.
such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition.
c.
such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system.
d.
any generalization of the above quantities.
2.
the direction or course followed by an airplane, missile, or the like.
3.
Biology.
a.
an insect or other organism that transmits a pathogenic fungus, virus, bacterium, etc.
b.
any agent that acts as a carrier or transporter, as a virus or plasmid that conveys a genetically engineered DNA segment into a host cell.
4.
Computers. an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript.
verb (used with object)
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Aeronautics. to guide (an aircraft) in flight by issuing appropriate headings.
6.
Aerospace. to change direction of (the thrust of a jet or rocket engine) in order to steer the craft.
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Vectoring
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1695–1705; < Latin: one that conveys, equivalent to vec-, variant stem of vehere to carry + -tor -tor
1695–1705; < Latin: one that conveys, equivalent to vec-, variant stem of vehere to carry + -tor -tor
Related forms
vec·to·ri·al·ly, adverb
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