Vector vs Ray - What's the difference?
vector | ray |
(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
A beam of light or radiation.
(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
* Alexander Pope
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
To emit something as if in rays.
To radiate as if in rays
(obsolete) To arrange.
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.4:
The name of the letter ?/?, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
* Spenser
In mathematics terms the difference between vector and ray
is that vector is any member of a (generalized) vector space while ray is a line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.As a proper noun Ray is
{{surname|from=nicknames}} from a Middle English nickname meaning a king or a roe.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
*Derived terms
* * * * * * * * *Verb
(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
* ----ray
English
Etymology 1
Via (etyl), from (etyl) rai, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope .
Derived terms
* death ray * gamma ray * manta ray * ray gun * stingray * X-rayVerb
(en verb)- (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Etymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
Shortened from array.Verb
(en verb)- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And form his face the filth that did it ray .
Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
Noun
(-)- And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray .