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Vector addition

Addition \Ad*di"tion\, n. [F. addition, L. additio, fr. addere to add.]

  1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. ``This endless addition or addibility of numbers.''
    --Locke.

  2. Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

  3. (Math.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.

  4. (Mus.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

  5. (Law) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

  6. (Her.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.

    Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.

    Syn: Increase; accession; augmentation; appendage; adjunct.

Usage examples of "vector addition".

Lovely gee was transparent to hard gravity, and thus when the two acted upon matter together it was with the simple arithmetic of vector addition.

As soon as the Captain had set her on her course, he started to spin her and kept it up until the centrifugal force and the boost added up (in vector addition, of course) to exactly the surface gravitation of Mars (or 37 percent of a standard gee) at the locus of the first-class staterooms.

This speed was arrived at deep inside Joe the Robot by combining by automatic vector addition three very complicated figures: first was the accumulated acceleration put on the ship by its jet drive, second the motions imposed on the ship by its closeness to the earth -- its 'free fall' speed of which Art had spoken.

This speed was arrived at deep inside Joe the Robot by combining by automatic vector addition three very complicated figures: first was the accumulated acceleration put on the ship by its jet drive, second the motions imposed on the ship by its closeness to the earth—.