a. [f. L. vectōri-us or directly f. prec.]
† 1. Capable of carrying or conveying. Obs.
1725. Derham, Astro-Theol. (1726), 66. From a Vectorial Power, or Emanations from the Sun. Ibid., 68. If … we should imagine the Moon to be wheeled about our Earth, by the Motion and Vectorial Power of the Earth.
2. Math. Of or pertaining to, connected with, a vector or radius vector.
1882. Minchin, Unipl. Kinemat., 84. The vectorial area of the complex path thus traced out … is the area of the roulette.
1882. C. Smith, Conic Sect. (1885), 10. The radius vector is considered positive if measured from O along the line bounding the vectorial angle.
