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Vector
01
vecteur
a person, animal, or microorganism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another
Exemples
Mosquitoes are the primary vector of malaria.
The flea acts as a vector for the plague bacterium.
02
vecteur, vecteur
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
Exemples
In physics, force is often represented as a vector, considering both its magnitude and direction.
En physique, la force est souvent représentée comme un vecteur, en considérant à la fois sa magnitude et sa direction.
Velocity, a vector quantity, describes an object's speed and the direction in which it is moving.
La vecteur, une quantité vectorielle, décrit la vitesse d'un objet et la direction dans laquelle il se déplace.
03
a virus, plasmid, or other agent used to deliver genetic material into a cell
Exemples
The lab used a viral vector to insert the gene into the cell.
Plasmid vectors are common tools for gene cloning.
