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any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"
radius vector a line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar coordinate system
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(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
virus (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
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a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
straight line a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
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A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
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A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
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The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
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A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.