Vector vs False - What's the difference?
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(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.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun vector
is (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.As a verb vector
is to set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.vector
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
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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.
References
* The New Oxford Dictionary of EnglishAnagrams
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}