Though predominately perceived as geo (earth) related, spatial information can range from the anatomic to astronomic scale, from the real to the abstract entity, over any time period.

Name entities, in narrow sense, refer to concrete or abstract entities in the real world including people, organizations, companies, places etc.

In this context, vectors are abstract entities which may or may not be characterized by a magnitude and a direction.

By general agreement, abstract entities can not interact causally with concrete, physical entities.

In this view, parts may be entities normally regarded as physical, such as atoms or subatomic particles, but they may also be abstract entities, such as quantum states.