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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

आधार सदिश

Pronunciation / Transliteration: adhar sadish

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Basis vector/ˈbeɪ.sɪs ˌvɛk.tər/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"रैखिक बीजगणित में आधार सदिश बहुत महत्वपूर्ण हैं।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    One of a sequence or set of vectors in a vector space that are linearly independent and span the space, such that every vector in the space can be expressed uniquely as a linear combination of them.

    "In a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, the standard basis vectors are usually denoted as i, j, and k."
  2. 2

    A directional element in a multidimensional coordinate framework that defines an independent axis of movement or measurement.

    "Principal component analysis uses orthogonal basis vectors to project high-dimensional data onto lower-dimensional subspaces."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'basis', derived from the Late Latin 'basis' (base, foundation) from Greek 'basis' (step, pedestal), and 'vector', from Latin 'vector' (carrier, bearer) from 'vehere' (to carry). Formalized in the 19th century with the development of linear algebra by mathematicians such as Hermann Grassmann and William Rowan Hamilton to describe directional quantities in vector spaces.

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