What is "vectored"

Usage examples of "vectored".

Everything seemed very ordinary and peaceful, but the drug was doing its work and Susan vectored on the suppressed excitement among the children.

The counter-grav let him fold the wings, which had been swept fully forward for their low-speed examination of possible landing sites, back into their high-speed position without losing control, and she heard turbines whine as he held a moderate apparent weight on the shuttle and vectored thrust downward.

Headhunters streaked past the viewscreen, but just for a split second, for Jaina vectored away at a different angle, and at single-engine full throttle, pressing Leia back in her seat.

The CAP was vectored out, but while it was on the way the Zeke became overconfident.

Guam between enemy aircraft taking off from patched-up Orote and TF 8 Hellcats vectored out to destroy them.

By 10:48 one group had closed to twenty-one miles, but fighters were vectored out and it vanished from the radar.

Air Group Twenty with simulated attacks on the little task group, bombing and strafing towed sleds, while aboard ship search and fire-control radars tracked the mock attackers, CIC vectored fighters out to meet them, guns followed their movements according to automatic signals received from the computers below, and the new captain, Cato D.

Jim Gray-was vectored out to the eastward while Boudinot remained in reserve overhead.

On the way back home, the FDO vectored the division onto a Betty uncomfortably close to the Task group.

The first bogey to which CIC vectored him was a single, sleek, fast, twin-engine Dinah reconnaissance plane at 23,000 feet, fifty miles out.

CAP was vectored out but the enemy planes split up and attacked in long, high-speed glides.

I had premolded the plastique, and now I worked it, shaped it, and vectored it.