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Vector
01
a person, animal, or microorganism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another
Exemplos
Mosquitoes are the primary vector of malaria.
The flea acts as a vector for the plague bacterium.
02
vetor, vetor
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
Exemplos
In physics, force is often represented as a vector, considering both its magnitude and direction.
Na física, a força é frequentemente representada como um vetor, considerando tanto sua magnitude quanto sua direção.
Velocity, a vector quantity, describes an object's speed and the direction in which it is moving.
O vetor, uma grandeza vetorial, descreve a velocidade de um objeto e a direção em que ele está se movendo.
03
a virus, plasmid, or other agent used to deliver genetic material into a cell
Exemplos
The lab used a viral vector to insert the gene into the cell.
Plasmid vectors are common tools for gene cloning.
