Definitions
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- adverb By or in relation to a
vector (in any sense)
Etymologies
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vectorial + -ly
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Examples
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There are analogous notions once we include relativity or quantum mechanics, but for our present purposes the version that Galileo and Newton would have recognized is good enough: in any interaction between bodies, the total momentum (mass times velocity of each body, added together vectorially) remains conserved.
Discover Blogs 2009
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The nearest source is approximately a light-year off our path, approximately twice that distance vectorially. "
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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