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vector

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In epidemiology , a vector is any agent (person, animal, or microorganism ) that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN expression ▪ These modified C-terminal fragments were subcloned into the NdeI and BamHI sites of the His-tagged expression vector , pET15b. ▪ However, such activation was dramatically reduced in the presence of the Oct-1 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a variable quantity that can be resolved into components a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"quantity having magnitude and direction," 1846; earlier "line joining a fixed point and a variable point," 1704, from Latin vector "one who carries or conveys, carrier" (also "one who rides"), agent noun from past participle stem of vehere "carry, convey" ...

Usage examples of vector.

She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.

After all, the use of pathogens such as adenovirus and HIV as recombinant vectors was ancient history.

Queen Victoria had ever called an urgent meeting of her counsellors, and ordered them to invent the equivalent of radio and television, it is unlikely that any of them would have imagined the path to lead through the experiments of Ampere, Biot, Oersted and Faraday, four equations of vector calculus, and the judgement to preserve the displacement current in a vacuum.

Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.

A few days before the match against Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.

He began to have his first doubts when a series of straight vector blinks showed the line of travel to be directly toward the Cassiopeian defense lines beyond Antares.

Also, those who have never carried a cruciform can be vectors for this virus.

But once within the airspace boundary of the Europan Demarchy, trafficmanagement co-opted the flitter, vectoring it into a touchdown corridor.

These vectors can be labeled by their eigenvalues under a set of commuting hermitian operators.

Any scab worth his yeast knew that those insect vectors were stuffed to bursting with swift and ghastly illnesses, pneumonic plague and necrotizing fasciitis among the friendlier ones.

Vectors of incoming ships indicate that they may attempt to land ground forces on Gilver, most probably with a view to assaulting or capturing the Great Unknown.

Mac braced himself as Gyton changed vector, slipping down under Markelos.

Purple and yellow vectors slithered through his head, temporarily displacing his view of the irradiated dust.

On repulsorlifts, she squirted out through the magcon field and then took an abrupt vector toward the stern.

So many endowments of stamina had been vectored to him that he felt as if light and life were oozing from every pore.