Vector field
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A vector field is a vector function that assigns a vector to each point in a region. So, if 
is a subset of the 
, then a vector field can be seen as the function 
, which maps an n-dimensional vector 
to each point 
:
This is contrasted with a scalar field that merely assigns a scalar value to each point.
