VECTOR
\vˈɛktə], \vˈɛktə], \v_ˈɛ_k_t_ə]\
Definitions of VECTOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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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; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases".
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
By Oddity Software
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A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
By Noah Webster.
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Term noting an insect or any living carrier which transports a pathogenic microorganism from the sick to the well, inoculating the latter; the organism may or may not pass through any developmental cycle within the vector.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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(math.) Any directed quantity, as a straight line in space, involving both its direction and magnitude.
By Daniel Lyons
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A line supposed to be drawn from any planet moving round a centre or the focus of an ellipsis to that centre or focus, commonly called the radius vector.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A line supposed to be drawn from a planet moving round any centre to that centre; a straight line connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point or pole round which it turns-see radius vector, which is the common name.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
