wordvector
nounA wordvector is a list of numbers that a computer uses to understand what a word means.
The computer turned each word into a wordvector so it could compare how similar two sentences were.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A numeric array assigned to a word in a machine-learning model so that similar words sit close together in space.
Words like 'cat' and 'kitten' end up with wordvectors that are near each other.
3. In information retrieval, a weighted vector of term frequencies used to rank documents against a query.
The search engine built a wordvector for the query and matched it against every document.
4. A teaching aid that shows a word as an arrow pointing in a direction to illustrate meaning relationships.
The teacher drew a wordvector on the board to show how 'hot' points toward 'warm'.