Portion of a directed line located between two points on the line.
Symbol
The directed line segment AB may be written as \(\overrightarrow{\textrm{AB}}\).
Therefore : \(\overrightarrow{\textrm{AB}}\) = –\(\overrightarrow{\textrm{BA}}\).
Example
This is the directed line segment AB, which may be written as \(\overrightarrow{\textrm{AB}}\) :
