vector

[Joseph Tracy]

vector |ˈvektər|
noun
1 Mathematics & Physics a quantity having direction as well as magnitude, esp. as determining the position of one point in space relative to another. 
vector 1
Compare with scalar.
• Mathematics a matrix with one row or one column.
• a course to be taken by an aircraft.
• [as adj. ] Computing denoting a type of graphical representation using straight lines to construct the outlines of objects.
2 an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.
• Genetics a bacteriophage or plasmid that transfers genetic material into a cell, or from one bacterium to another.
verb [ trans. ] (often be vectored)
direct (an aircraft in flight) to a desired point.

Essentially it can be a direction from a given point alone or can mean both direction and object/point of transmission or contact or termination. My understanding is that the magnitude can be a distance or a speed of travel. 

On May 25, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Keith Davis wrote:

> Only one of many recurring fallacies here in the Deep South.
> 
> On May 25, 2012 7:01 PM, "Alex Colter" <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, good point Jochen, I rush'd to explain the definitions without first consulting the Context... terrible fallacy, ever recurring here in the American South
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:01 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't see Desire as an object/target. (What would that make of
> l'objet du désir, meaning the object where Desire is headed?)
> 
> I wrote: Cherrycoke is speaking of the "Object we wish to examine".
> And DePugh, home from Cambridge, answers with the words Keith was
> asking about "A Vector of Desire". And "of Desire", in that case, is a
> genitivus subjectivus, in other words: the Vector.
> 
> 
> 2012/5/25 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> > LED's then? Mason surely knew of them. Did Mason write MD?
> >
> > The basic difference between your interpretation and mine is that you
> > see Desire as an object/target.  I see Desire as an acting, moving
> > force.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:50 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Don't mention it, Keith. But reviewing my mail I see that I should've
> >> written: l'objet du désir. Computer graphics obviously made no sense for Mason&Dixon and DePugh but "a quantity having direction as well as magnitude" did.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Jochen
>