What is the difference between meme and vector?
meme | vector |
Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
*1976 , (Richard Dawkins), The Selfish Gene :
*:Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
*2002 , Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness , p. 242:
*:Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
(Internet, slang) Something that is copied and circulated online with slight adaptions, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. A meme can be a photo or artwork, usually with text, often codified with a distinct white block lettering text on the image. If a particular, standardized image is used, there is a protocol to how it should be used
* 2005 , "darklily", OT: Livejournal'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''soc.sexuality.general )
*2012 , Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing , 2nd edition:
*:The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
*2013 , The Guardian , (headline), 8 Feb 2013:
*:Harlem Shake meme : the new Gangnam Style?
(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
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(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the (soplink) between two points.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(senseid)(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 [[jump, jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
* 1994 , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
As nouns the difference between meme and vector
is that meme is (philosophy) any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another while vector is (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the (soplink) between two points.As a verb vector is
to set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.meme
English
(wikipedia meme)Noun
(en noun)- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.
Derived terms
* memedom * memome * memeplex * meme pool * memetic * memetic algorithm * memetic engineering * memeticsSee also
* culturgen * email forward * replicatorvector
Noun
(en noun)- The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
Usage notes
* (programming) The term is used loosely when the indices are not (either positive or non-negative) integers.Hypernyms
*Derived terms
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(en verb)- if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.
