dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vec_MW.json

{
  "vector field":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a set of vectors that is defined in relation to a function such that each point of the function is associated with a vector from the set":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There's an instrument that measures incident ions along the spacecraft's orbit, as well as a 13-foot-long boom, which has a vector field magnetometer and three startrackers attached at the halfway point. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 1 June 2020",
      "This map, which is called a vector field , is a snapshot of the internal dynamics of a fluid. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 21 Dec. 2017",
      "The Navier-Stokes equations take that snapshot and play it forward, telling you exactly what the vector field will look like at every subsequent moment in time. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 21 Dec. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1922, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141838"
  },
  "vector diagram":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a diagram involving vectors":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191425"
  },
  "vectorial angle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the angle from the polar axis to the radius vector":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220859"
  },
  "vector calculus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the application of the calculus to vectors":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-023447"
  },
  "vector product":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vector c whose length is the product of the lengths of two vectors a and b and the sine of their included angle, whose direction is perpendicular to their plane, and whose direction is that in which a right-handed screw rotated from a toward b along axis c would move":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1878, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030745"
  },
  "vector potential":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vector field so distributed in space as to represent by means of its curl some physically important vector":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-032242"
  },
  "vector psychology":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": topological psychology":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042436"
  },
  "vector analysis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a branch of mathematics that deals with vectors":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145011"
  },
  "vector algebra":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an algebra for which the elements involved may represent vectors and the assumptions and rules are based on the behavior of vectors":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183029"
  },
  "vector multiplication":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the product of vectors":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203508"
  },
  "vector addition":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the process of finding the geometric sum of a number of vectors by repeated application of the parallelogram law":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220113"
  }
}