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In physics, a vector is basically anything you can measure (or imagine) that has both a magnitude (something you can express with a number), and a direction. An electric field has both; at any point in space, a unit charge will experience a force (which is in itself a vector). The electric field at any point can be understood as the electric force per unit charge.

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