---
slug: "Vector"
name: "Vector"
type: "Data Structures"
layer: "Infrastructure"
ref: "Vector#4268"
sema_id: "sema:Vector#mh:SHA-256:426835100cd1b60d25e87518ba77200fc7b7ec87b917448e09fc03b1087f6993"
tags: ["Infrastructure","Data Structures"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json
url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Vector/
related: ["Aggregate","AntifragileInversion","NormativeJudge","Shard","sema:LatentAttachment#mh:SHA-256:ab684573c68d4eb05cab650f17e6970a22e65e7d989b53db3281422785fbfec4"]
---

# Vector

Semantic position array

Layer: Infrastructure · Category: Data Structures

## Mechanism

A multi-dimensional array of numbers. The space it indexes is the caller's — semantic embeddings, statistical samples, geometric coordinates — and the pattern fixes only that the values are numeric and ordered.

## Invariants

- `dimensions` equals the length of `values`.

## Failure modes

—

## Data schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "values",
    "dimensions"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "values": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "number"
      },
      "description": "Ordered numerical components"
    },
    "dimensions": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Labels for vector dimensions (e.g. x, y, z)"
    }
  }
}
```

## Builds on

—

## Used by

- [Aggregate](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Aggregate.md) (Infrastructure; Accepts)
- [Aggregate](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Aggregate.md) (Infrastructure; Accepts)
- [AntifragileInversion](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/AntifragileInversion.md) (Mind; References)
- [NormativeJudge](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/NormativeJudge.md) (Mind; Accepts)
- [Shard](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Shard.md) (Infrastructure; References)

## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Vector#mh:SHA-256:426835100cd1b60d25e87518ba77200fc7b7ec87b917448e09fc03b1087f6993`
- Ref: `Vector#4268`
- Supersedes:
  - `sema:Vector#mh:SHA-256:8dacf45514d39fe2fd599b9752f8767acceffe63f4885fc8c53cf0c398809478`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Vector/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/#Vector)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Vector.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json)