Vector

Characters and fictional elements

• Vector (Battle Angel Alita)
• Vector (comics), Marvel Comics
• Vector (G.I. Joe), vehicle
• Vector the Crocodile, in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Vector, a Barian Emperor from Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
• Vector class in Wipeout games
• Victor "Vector" Perkins in Despicable Me (film), 2010
• Vector, in the game Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
• Vector, a weapon in the series Elfen Lied
• Vector, a location in the video game Final Fantasy VI
• Vector Industries, an organization in the Xenosaga video game series

Games

• Vector (video game), 2012
• Vectorman, 1995, for Sega

Literature

• Vector (journal), the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
• Vector (novel), 1999, by Robin Cook
• The Vector (newspaper), a student-run newspaper of the New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Vectors (journal), a defunct online journal covering digital humanities

Music

• Interval vector in musical set theory
• Vector (album), 2018, by Haken
• Vector (band), 1980s
• Vector (rapper) (b. 1983), Nigerian
• Martin Wheeler, aka Vector Lovers

Computer science

• Vector, a one-dimensional array data structure
  • Distance-vector routing protocol, a class of routing protocols
  • Dope vector, a data structure used to store information about an array
  • Feature vector, an n-dimensional vector of numerical features that represent some object
  • Interrupt vector, the location in memory of an interrupt handling routine
  • Initialization vector, a fixed-size input to a cryptographic primitive
  • Vector (C++), a type in the C++ Standard Template Library
  • Vector clock, an algorithm
  • Vector space model, an algebraic model for representing text documents
• Euclidean vector, a geometric object with a direction and magnitude
  • Vector graphics, images defined by geometric primitives as opposed to bitmaps
  • Vector monitor, a display device used by early computers
  • Vector game, any video game that uses a vector graphics display
• Vector (malware), approach used, or vulnerability exploited, in attacking a computer system
• Vector (robot), 2018, by Anki

Mathematics and physics

• Vector (mathematics and physics)
  • Euclidean vector, a geometric object with a direction and magnitude
  • Row and column vectors, single row or column matrices
  • Vector field, a vector for each point
  • Vector quantity
  • Vector space

Molecular biology

• Vector (molecular biology), a DNA molecule used as a vehicle to artificially carry foreign genetic material into another cell
  • Cloning vector, a small piece of DNA into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted for cloning purposes
  • Shuttle vector, a plasmid constructed so that it can propagate in two different host species
  • Viral vector, a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic materials into cells

Other uses in technology

• KRISS Vector, a .45 ACP submachine gun
• Vector Map, a collection of Earth GIS data

Vehicles

Other uses in transportation

• Thrust vectoring, directing engine thrust