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noun
- An instrument used to measure variations in a magnetic field
- A rate-of-climb indicator
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noun
- (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; an element of a vector space
- (context, aviation) a chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft
- (medicine, biology) a carrier of a disease-causing agent
- (sociology) a person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme from the concept of biological vector
- the way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others
- (computing) (operating systems) a memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereference, deferenced and jump, jumped to during the execution of an interrupt
- (complang) A data structure consisting of a series of contiguous storage location, storage locations which are accessed via an integer offset from the address of the first storage location, thereby allowing a collection of values which utilize a common storage layout to be referenced either individually or in aggregate, as desired.
- (complang) A one-dimensional array.
verb
- to set (particularly an aircraft) a course toward a selected point.
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noun
- (nautical) A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats.
- 1719: w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
- : ''But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
- A container.
- A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
- :I am a that"s empty and useless <BR />I am a bad seed that fell by the way<BR />I am a loser that wants to be a winner<BR />And you are my last hope<BR />Don"t turn me away.
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- blood or lymph vessels in humans, xylem or phloem vessels in plants
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noun
- a steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off
verb (volplan, ing)
- to make a volplane
- 1973: Curtains of vapor drift back to reveal the Americans, volplaning along well inside ten meters and only a little faster than the balloon. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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