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Vector
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vector
a person, animal, or microorganism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another
Ejemplos
Mosquitoes are the primary vector of malaria.
The flea acts as a vector for the plague bacterium.
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vector, vector
an ordered set of numbers that describes both magnitude and direction, commonly used to represent quantities like displacement, velocity, or force in physics and engineering
Ejemplos
In physics, force is often represented as a vector, considering both its magnitude and direction.
En física, la fuerza a menudo se representa como un vector, considerando tanto su magnitud como su dirección.
Velocity, a vector quantity, describes an object's speed and the direction in which it is moving.
La vector, una cantidad vectorial, describe la velocidad de un objeto y la dirección en la que se mueve.
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a virus, plasmid, or other agent used to deliver genetic material into a cell
Ejemplos
The lab used a viral vector to insert the gene into the cell.
Plasmid vectors are common tools for gene cloning.
