Vector
01
a person, animal, or microorganism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another
例子
The flea acts as a vector for the plague bacterium.
02
向量, 矢量
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
例子
Velocity, a vector quantity, describes an object's speed and the direction in which it is moving.
矢量，一个矢量数量，描述物体的速度和它移动的方向。
03
a virus, plasmid, or other agent used to deliver genetic material into a cell
例子
Plasmid vectors are common tools for gene cloning.
