Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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vector

UK /ˈvɛktə/ · US /ˈvɛktɚ/ noun, verb

Forms vectors vectoring vectored

  1. noun (mathematics, physics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points. “Velocity is a vector defined by the speed of an object and its direction.”
  2. noun (mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space. “The vectors in #123;#92;mathbbQ#125;#91;X#93; are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is #92;textstylex#123;42#125;#43;#92;frac1#123;137#125;x-1.”
  3. noun (mathematics, computing) An ordered tuple, originally one representing a directed quantity, but by extension any one-dimensional matrix. “Computers store many types of data as vectors for ease of processing.”
  4. noun (aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
  5. noun (programming) A kind of dynamically resizable array.
  6. noun (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 jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
  7. noun (computer graphics, attributive) A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics. “a vector image, vector graphics”
  8. noun (molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.
  9. verb To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
  10. verb (computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.

Synonyms

transmitter

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“to carry, transport, bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Radius vector.
  2. noun A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.

Etymology [L., a bearer, carrier. fr. vehere, vectum, to carry.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vector”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details