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Array and Vector

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • A variable quantity that can be resolved into components.
  • A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction.
  • Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.
    • usage: "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"
  • Genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell. (.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Same as Radius vector.