vector
noun
1 vector
A variable quantity that can be resolved into components.
Roget 278: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency etc. 176; incidence; bending, trending etc. ... show more
Polish: wektor
2 vector
A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction.
Dutch: vector
3 vector
Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease:
— Mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever.
— Fleas are vectors of the plague.
— When medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects.
synonym: transmitter.
Dutch: vector
4 vector
genetics A virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell.
Dutch: vector
Moby thesaurus: aerial infection, air line, airborne infection, axis, azimuth, beeline, biological vector, carrier, chord, communicability, compass bearing, compass direction, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, course, cryptogenic infection, diagonal, diameter, direct infection ... show more.
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