| NOUN | cognition | vector | a variable quantity that can be resolved into components |
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| shape | vector | a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction | |
| object | vector, transmitter | any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | |
| animal | vector | (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell |
| Sounds | veh'kter | |
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| Rhymes | abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter... | |
| Meaning | A variable quantity that can be resolved into components. | |
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| Narrower | radius vector | A line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar coordinate system |
| radius vector | A line connecting a satellite to the center of the body around which it is rotating | |
| vector product, cross product | A vector that is the product of two other vectors | |
| vector sum, resultant | A vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | |
| Broader | variable, variable quantity | A quantity that can assume any of a set of values |
| Spanish | vector | |
| Catalan | vector | |
| Meaning | A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction. | |
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| Narrower | ray | (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point |
| Broader | straight line | A line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction |
| Spanish | vector | |
| Catalan | vector | |
| Meaning | Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease. | |
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| Synonym | transmitter | |
| Category | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
| microorganism, micro-organism | Any organism of microscopic size | |
| Narrower | carrier, immune carrier | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others |
| transducing vector, gene delivery vector | A vector for delivering genes into cells | |
| Broader | agent | An active and efficient cause |
| Spanish | vector | |
| Catalan | vector | |
| Meaning | (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell. | |
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| Category | genetics, genetic science | The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
| Narrower | cosmid | (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments |
| Broader | virus | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts |
| Spanish | vector | |
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