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

  • 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

  • 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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