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vectorial, a.|vɛkˈtɔərɪəl| [f. L. vectōri-us or directly f. vector n.] †1. Capable of carrying or conveying. Obs.
1715Derham Astro-Theol. (1726) 66 From a Vectorial Power, or Emanations from the Sun. Ibid. 68 If..we should imagine the Moon to be wheeled about our Earth, by the Motion and Vectorial Power of the Earth. 2. Math. Of or pertaining to, connected with, a vector or radius vector.
1882Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 84 The vectorial area of the complex path thus traced out..is the area of the roulette. 1882C. Smith Conic Sect. (1885) 10 The radius vector is considered positive if measured from O along the line bounding the vectorial angle. 3. Path. Of or pertaining to the ability to act as a vector of a disease.
1964Bull. World Health Organization XXXI. 71 In malaria eradication the residual insecticide exerts upon the mosquito's vectorial capacity a direct insecticidal impact. 1981Trop. Med. & Hygiene News Feb. 24 The vectorial capacity (i.e., the risk of transmission of the parasite) was found to be about 1000 times the critical value required for the maintenance of endemic malaria. Hence vecˈtorially adv., as a vector or vectors.
1895Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CLXXXVI. 706 The integral of this rotation taken (vectorially) throughout a small volume including the initial and final positions of the electron is equal to the strength of the electron multiplied by its linear displacement. 1909Bedell & Pierce Direct & Alternating Current Man. vi. 201 Currents,..when of different phases, are added vectorially to obtain the resultant current. 1947Proc. Physical Soc. LIX. 24 If the remaining admittance is plotted vectorially, a circle of diameter 1/(S + Si) is obtained. 1978Sci. Amer. May 126/2 The point will have two components of apparent motion... The components add vectorially, and the point appears to move diagonally rather than either horizontally or vertically. |