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vector

English

  1. 🔊 (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
  2. 🔊 a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
  3. 🔊 any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
    “mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever”
  4. 🔊 a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

Spanish

  1. 🔊 vector vector

Similar words

transmitter aerial infection air line airborne infection axis azimuth beeline biological vector carrier chord communicability compass bearing compass direction contagion contagiousness contamination course cryptogenic infection diagonal diameter direct infection direct line directrix droplet infection