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Geometric object with magnitude (length) and direction.

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Why can the "arrow" vectors be slid parallelly anywhere in space?

Griffiths has a section starting page 10 on "How Vectors Transform?" … where he gives a definition of vectors as things which transform nicely under some position transformations i.e. he is not using the general definitions of abstract vectors but also imposing a representation …
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