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vector analysis

American  

noun

  1. the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.


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Eclipsed for much of the 20th century by such tools as vector analysis and matrix algebra, quaternions have more recently enjoyed a renaissance.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2016

Plebes who are tops in mathematics will leapfrog into advanced subjects, e.g., vector analysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

His special fields of research included synthetic geometry, vector analysis, alternating current, phenomena magnetics and hysteresis, dielectrics, transients and electrochemistry.

From Time Magazine Archive

His achievement was a general mathematical theory including as special cases certain fundamental branches, such as quaternions and vector analysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The arrows indicate direction only and their slants were obtained by vector analysis of the over-all sector densities.

From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.

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