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vector

/ˈvɛktɚ/noun2 syllables

Vector means: any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.

Synonyms for vector1

noun, as in any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

transmitter

What does vector mean?4

noun

1

any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease“mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever”

2

a variable quantity that can be resolved into components

3

a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

4

(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with vector?15

two syllables

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Vector in a sentence

  • A vector quantity has two characteristics, a magnitude and a direction.Hybrid
  • Support vector machines are supervised learning models used for classification and regression analysis.saturo
  • What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?neron
  • Most people are introduced to vectors in high school or college.Hybrid
  • A Banach space is a complete normed vector space.frpzzd
  • In mathematics, an algebra over a field is a vector space equipped with a bilinear product.LinaTamazight
  • The dimension of a vector space equals the largest number of its elements that can be linearly independent.halfb1t
  • Every vector space has a basis.halfb1t

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Forms of vector

as a noun

plural
vectors