Vector most often refers to:
Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction
Vector may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Characters and fictional elements Vector (Battle Angel Alita) Vector (comics), Marvel Comics Vector (G.I. Joe), vehicle Vector the Crocodile, in the Sonic the Hedgehog series Vector, a Barian Emperor from Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Vector class in Wipeout games Victor "Vector" Perkins in Despicable Me (film), 2010 Vector, in the game Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Vector, a weapon in the series Elfen Lied Vector, a location in the video game Final Fantasy VI Vector Industries, an organization in the Xenosaga video game series
Games Vector (video game), 2012 Vectorman, 1995, for Sega
Literature Vector (journal), the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association Vector (novel), 1999, by Robin Cook The Vector (newspaper), a student-run newspaper of the New Jersey Institute of Technology Vectors (journal), a defunct online journal covering digital humanities
Music Interval vector in musical set theory Vector (album), 2018, by Haken Vector (band), 1980s Vector (rapper) (b. 1983), Nigerian Martin Wheeler, aka Vector Lovers
Businesses and organizations State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR, a biological research center in Russia Vector Engineering, multinational engineering, procurement, construction management, and operations service provider Vector Graphic, an early manufacturer of 8-bit microcomputers Vector Group, a publicly traded holding company, focusing on tobacco and real estate Vector Informatik, a software tool and components provider for development of embedded electronics Vector Launch, an American space technology company, 2016–2019 Vector Limited, a New Zealand gas and electricity supplier Vector Marketing, a multi-level knife marketing company Vector Motors, an automobile manufacturer
Science, technology, and mathematics Computer science Vector, a one-dimensional array data structure Distance-vector routing protocol, a class of routing protocols Dope vector, a data structure used to store information about an array Feature vector, an n-dimensional vector of numerical features that represent some object Interrupt vector, the location in memory of an interrupt handling routine Initialization vector, a fixed-size input to a cryptographic primitive Vector (C++), a type in the C++ Standard Template Library Vector clock, an algorithm Vector space model, an algebraic model for representing text documents Euclidean vector, a geometric object with a direction and magnitude Vector graphics, images defined by geometric primitives as opposed to bitmaps Vector monitor, a display device used by early computers Vector game, any video game that uses a vector graphics display Vector (malware), approach used, or vulnerability exploited, in attacking a computer system Vector (robot), 2018, by Anki
Mathematics and physics Vector (mathematics and physics) Euclidean vector, a geometric object with a direction and magnitude Row and column vectors, single row or column matrices Vector field, a vector for each point Vector quantity Vector space
Molecular biology Vector (molecular biology), a DNA molecule used as a vehicle to artificially carry foreign genetic material into another cell Cloning vector, a small piece of DNA into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted for cloning purposes Shuttle vector, a plasmid constructed so that it can propagate in two different host species Viral vector, a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic materials into cells
Other uses in technology
KRISS Vector, a .45 ACP submachine gun Vector Map, a collection of Earth GIS data
Transportation Vehicles Aircraft Aerodyne Systems Vector, an ultralight aircraft Hall Vector 1, a glider A brand of reconnaissance drone produced by Quantum-Systems Radar vector, headings assigned by air traffic control for navigation
Automotive vehicles Pinzgauer High-Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) (Vector), a military patrol vehicle VECTOR, a Dutch light utility vehicle Vector, a variant of the Saab 9-3 automobile Vector Motors sports cars Vector M12 Vector SRV8 Vector W2 Vector W8 Vector WX-3
Nautical vessels , a 1967 hydrographic survey vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard , a Philippine tanker ship
Other uses in transportation Thrust vectoring, directing engine thrust
Other uses Light verb, or vector verb, in grammar Parker Vector, pens Vector 2022, a Wikipedia skin Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand Vector, a brand of cereal sold by Kellogg's
See also
Vector graphics (disambiguation) Vectorization (disambiguation) Vectra (disambiguation) Vektor (disambiguation)