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Meaning:

Noun:

  • computing (operating systems) a memory address containing the address of a dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt
  • aviation a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
  • epidemiology a carrier of a disease-causing agent
  • mathematics a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
  • programming A one-dimensional array.
  • psychology a recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality
  • sociology a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
  • 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

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Verb:

  • to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.

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