Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
VECTOR
vector
(noun) (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
vector
(noun) a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
vector, transmitter
(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; “mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever”; “fleas are vectors of the plague”; “aphids are transmitters of plant diseases”; “when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects”
vector
(noun) a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vector (plural vectors)
(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
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 dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
(computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.
Coordinate term: raster
(molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
Usage notes
• (programming): The term vector is used loosely when the indices are not (either positive or non-negative) integers.
Hypernyms
• tensor
Hyponyms
• axial vector
• Burgers vector
• change vector
• column vector
• Darboux vector
• displacement vector
• Euclidean vector
• gradient vector
• gyrovector
• Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
• normal vector
• null vector
• position vector
• Poynting vector
• random vector
• row vector
• spin vector (spinor)
• tangent vector
• unit vector
• wave vector
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.
(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.
Anagrams
• Covert, corvet, covert
Source: Wiktionary
Vec"tor, n. Etym: [L., a bearer, carrier. fr. vehere, vectum, to carry.]
1. Same as Radius vector.
2. (Math.)
Definition: A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
Note: In a triangle, either side is the vector sum of the other two sides taken in proper order; the process finding the vector sum of two or more vectors is vector addition (see under Addition).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INSIGNIFICANTLY
(adverb) not to a significant degree or amount; “our budget will only be insignificantly affected by these new cuts”
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