vectoring
Steering a course
Vectoring is directing movement along a specific path, especially guiding aircraft to a destination by radio instruction: Air traffic control vectored the plane to an alternate runway.
The term extends to any precise redirection of force or attention: The team is vectoring resources toward the new project.
From vector, the mathematical term for a quantity with both magnitude and direction.
Aircraft's designated travel corridor
- approachWay of handling something
- departureAct of going away
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- headingDirectional course traveled
altitude · glideslope · trajectory · airspeed · clearance · ATC · navigation · intercept
Device showing cardinal directions
- coursePlanned path forward
- bearingPosture or orientation
- headingDirectional course traveled
- trajectoryPath of moving object
route · orientation · waypoint · plotting · charting · steering · positioning · triangulation
Message-conveying cue
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- relayStage-by-stage transmission
- propagateSpread or breed further
- beamStructural support member
radiate · modulate · encode · uplink · downlink · antenna · directional · waveform
Size or scale
- directionWay something faces
- tensorMultilinear algebraic object
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- eigenvectorDirection preserved under transformation
coordinate · gradient · divergence · curl · basis · component · displacement · velocity
flightpath
Aircraft's designated travel corridor
heading · altitude · glideslope · trajectory · airspeed · clearance · ATC · navigation · intercept · sequencing
compass
Device showing cardinal directions
trajectory · route · orientation · waypoint · plotting · charting · steering · positioning · triangulation · azimuth
signal
Message-conveying cue
beam · radiate · modulate · encode · uplink · downlink · antenna · directional · waveform · carrier
magnitude
Size or scale
eigenvector · coordinate · gradient · divergence · curl · basis · component · displacement · velocity · acceleration
- Air Trafficair traffic control, ATC, controller, radar contact, radar tracking
- air traffic controltower control, control tower, controllers, controller, radar systems
- missile warfaremissile, cruise missile, guidance, homing, warhead
vectoringdrifting
Moving without purpose
wandering · floating · meandering · straying · roaming
vectoringreleasing
Allowing to escape
abandoning · neglecting · letting go · losing control · hands-off