Vector
01
a person, animal, or microorganism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another
例
Mosquitoes are the primary vector of malaria.
The flea acts as a vector for the plague bacterium.
02
ベクトル, ベクトル
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
例
In physics, force is often represented as a vector, considering both its magnitude and direction.
物理学では、力はしばしばベクトルとして表され、その大きさと方向の両方が考慮されます。
Velocity, a vector quantity, describes an object's speed and the direction in which it is moving.
ベクトル、ベクトル量は、物体の速度とその移動方向を記述します。
03
a virus, plasmid, or other agent used to deliver genetic material into a cell
例
The lab used a viral vector to insert the gene into the cell.
Plasmid vectors are common tools for gene cloning.
