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• UK: /ˈvɛktə/
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• US: vĕk'tər
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• US: /ˈvɛktɚ/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵh- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵheti Proto-Italic *weɣō Latin vehō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin vectorlbor. English vector Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“to carry, transport, bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle. The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

131 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: wektor — directed quantity
• Arabic: مُتَّجِهٌ (muttajihun) — directed quantity
• Arabic: مُتَّجِهاتٌ (muttajihātun) — directed quantity
• Arabic: شُعاعٌ (šuʕāʕun) — directed quantity
• Arabic: أَشِعَّةٌ (ʔašiʕʕatun) — directed quantity
• Bulgarian: вектор (vektor) — directed quantity
• Catalan: vector — directed quantity
• Chinese Cantonese: 向量 (hoeng3 loeng6) — directed quantity
• Chinese Mandarin: 向量 (xiàngliàng) — directed quantity
• Chinese Mandarin: 矢量 (shǐliàng) — directed quantity
• Czech: vektor — directed quantity
• Danish: vektor — directed quantity
• Dutch: vector — directed quantity
• Esperanto: vektoro — directed quantity
• Finnish: vektori — directed quantity
• French: vecteur — directed quantity
• Galician: vector — directed quantity
• Georgian: ვექტორი (vekṭori) — directed quantity
• German: Vektor — directed quantity
• Greek: διάνυσμα (diánysma) — directed quantity
• Hebrew: וקטור (vektór) — directed quantity
• Hindi: सदिश (sadiś) — directed quantity
• Hungarian: vektor — directed quantity
• Icelandic: vigur — directed quantity
• Ido: vektoro — directed quantity
• Irish: veicteoir — directed quantity
• Italian: vettore — directed quantity
• Japanese: ベクトル (bekutoru) — directed quantity
• Khmer: វ៉ិចទ័រ (vəctɔə) — directed quantity
• Korean: 벡터 (bekteo) — directed quantity
• Latvian: vektors — directed quantity
• Latvian: vektōrs — directed quantity
• Lithuanian: vektorius — directed quantity
• Malay: vektor — directed quantity
• Māori: pere — directed quantity
• Marathi: सदिश (sadiś) — directed quantity
• Mongolian: чиглэл (čiglel) — directed quantity
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektor — directed quantity
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vektor — directed quantity
• Persian: بردار — directed quantity
• Polish: wektor — directed quantity
• Portuguese: vector — directed quantity
• Portuguese: vetor — directed quantity
• Romanian: vector — directed quantity
• Russian: ве́ктор (véktor) — directed quantity
• Serbo-Croatian: вектор — directed quantity
• Serbo-Croatian: vektor — directed quantity
• Slovene: vektor — directed quantity
• Spanish: vector — directed quantity
• Swedish: vektor — directed quantity
• Tagalog: tugano — directed quantity
• Tagalog: bektor — directed quantity
• Tamil: திசையன் (ticaiyaṉ) — directed quantity
• Thai: เวกเตอร์ (vék-dtə̂ə) — directed quantity
• Turkish: vektör — directed quantity
• Turkish: yöney — directed quantity
• Vietnamese: đại lượng có hướng — directed quantity
• Vietnamese: đại lượng hữu hướng — directed quantity
• Vietnamese: hướng lượng — directed quantity
• Bulgarian: курс (kurs) — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Catalan: vector — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Dutch: koers — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Finnish: kurssi — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Galician: vector — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Georgian: კურსი (ḳursi) — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Georgian: მიმართულება (mimartuleba) — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Irish: veicteoir — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Malay: vektor — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Portuguese: vector — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Russian: курс (kurs) — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Russian: направле́ние (napravlénije) — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Spanish: vector — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Swedish: vektor — aviation: chosen course or direction for motion
• Arabic: ناقِلٌ (nāqilun) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Arabic: نَواقِلُ (nawāqilu) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Bulgarian: преносител (prenositel) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Chinese Mandarin: 病媒 (bìngméi) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Czech: přenašeč — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Czech: vektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Finnish: taudinkantaja — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Finnish: tartunnanlevittäjä — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• French: vecteur — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Georgian: ვექტორი (vekṭori) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Greek: φορέας (foréas) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Hindi: रोगवाहक (rogvāhak) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Hungarian: bacilusgazda — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Hungarian: betegséghordozó — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Hungarian: vektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Irish: veicteoir — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Italian: vettore — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Japanese: ベクター (bekutā) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Khmer: វ៉ិចទ័រ (vəctɔə) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Malay: vektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Māori: kaitītaritari — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Polish: przenosiciel — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Polish: wektor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Portuguese: vetor — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Russian: перено́счик (perenósčik) — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Spanish: vector — carrier of a disease-causing agent
• Finnish: levittäjä — sociology: person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme
• Polish: wektor — memory address containing the address of a code entry point
• Bulgarian: вектор (vektor) — programming: kind of array
• Bulgarian: едномерна матрица (ednomerna matrica) — programming: kind of array
• Czech: vektor — programming: kind of array
• Finnish: vektori — programming: kind of array
• Galician: vector — programming: kind of array
• Georgian: ვექტორი (vekṭori) — programming: kind of array
• Hebrew: וקטור (vektór) — programming: kind of array
• Korean: 벡터 (bekteo) — programming: kind of array
• Latvian: vektors — programming: kind of array
• Malay: vektor — programming: kind of array
• Portuguese: vetor — programming: kind of array
• Romanian: vector — programming: kind of array
• Russian: ве́ктор (véktor) — programming: kind of array
• Russian: масси́в (massív) — programming: kind of array
• Spanish: vector — programming: kind of array
• Vietnamese: mảng một chiều — programming: kind of array
• Catalan: vector — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Czech: vektor — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Finnish: vektori — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Irish: veicteoir — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektor — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vektor — DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another
• Bulgarian: насочвам (nasočvam) — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point
• Finnish: asettaa kurssi — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point
• Georgian: მიმართვა (mimartva) — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point
• Georgian: წარმართვა (c̣armartva) — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point
• Georgian: მიმართულების მიცემა (mimartulebis micema) — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point
• Welsh: fectoru — set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point