1. a quantity that has size but no direction Compare : vector (1)

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1. (of a quantity) having size but no direction Compare : vectorTopics
   Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin scalaris, from scala ‘ladder’, from the base of Latin scandere ‘to climb’.

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