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US
/ˈvɛktɝ/
]
[ UK /vˈɛktɐ/ ]
[ UK /vˈɛktɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
- (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
- a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
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any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects
aphids are transmitters of plant diseases
mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever
fleas are vectors of the plague
How To Use vector In A Sentence
- Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States.
- Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
- The Sherpa has everything the Vector has (including the timekeeper), but also an anemometer that measures wind speed and wind chill in mph, knots, beaufort, km/h, and m/s.
- The system adopts vector control scheme of rate opening loop and magnetic linkage closed loop.
- In order to reduce the computational load of the full-search VQ, a mean-match correlation vector quantizer, MMCVQ, is presented for fast image encoding in this paper.
- Methods: The restriction endonuclease and T 4 DNA ligase were used to construct the vector plasmid.
- First of all, the model of speed regulation and vector control idea are introduced. The math model, coordinate vector change and asynchronous machine controllability and observant are discussed.
- Trumpf will display the VectorMark compact, a valuable tool for various industrial and commercial marking tasks.
- The problem with the ‘vector sum’ formulation is that it ignores several crucial properties of the system: the ‘vectors’ are not independent, the ’sum’ feeds back into the individual vectors, and the operation of summation is non-linear. Link Farm & Open Thread #28
- Approach requested a climb to 2,000 feet and vectored me 90 degrees off the final bearing.