vector

[Keith Davis]

I suppose, if the object and the intensity create a magnetism that draws
the object to it.

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Prashant Kumar <
p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

> Yep. Though the third is implied by the first two.
>
>
> On 27 May 2012 01:57, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, after all this, it seems like a pretty densely packed little phrase.
>> It seems to designate the object of desire, as well as the intensity of the
>> desire, and the path that leads to the fulfillment of the desire, all at
>> once. How does that sound?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>>> So following Virgil's value-added vacation through the veil to visionary
>>> worlds of vice and victory, the exact velocity of the vector of the viral
>>> vaginal variations of vibration becomes an important measure of meander
>>> with bigger bugs to bitem and so ad infinitum. This is the very
>>> morelessness that sum were tingly thinkling. And me2 along withem.
>>> On May 26, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>>
>>> > 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
>>> >>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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