vector addition

noun

Mathematics.

the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.

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Dyer says that Menzel and colleagues' results provide good evidence that bees do not navigate by a type of vector addition, pegged to the position of the Sun.

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