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• n  a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
• n  a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
• n  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
  when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects
• n  (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

• Ho is exploring the possibility that a different vector, such as the chicken pox virus, or perhaps no vector at all simply injecting snippets of naked HIV DNA could yield .
• It's true that crowded trains and subway cars can be a vector for disease transmission if sick people are on board.
• A disadvantage of a vector machine is that vector system software is not really portable.

• transmitter

News & Articles

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• Mosquito spraying starts today
  West Nile virus has once again been detected in Yuba-Sutter as four mosquito samples and one bird tested positive for the disease this year. In an effort to minimize the spread of West Nile virus, the Sutter-Yuba Mosquito & Vector Control District will start spraying in numerous...
  July 1, 2013 - Appeal-Democrat
• Guncraft, Cognition among eight games Greenlit on Steam
  Steam Greenlight recently gave the go-ahead for eight games and three pieces of software to begin distribution on Steam. The greenlit games were Guncraft by Exacto Game Studios, Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller by Phoenix Online Studios, Wild Games Studio's Day One : Garry's Incident , Homesick by Lucky Pause, In Verbis Virtus by Indomitus Games, XGen Studios' Super Motherload , Vector by Nekki ...
  June 30, 2013 - Joystiq
• Picnic pests can be deterred
  Undated image An Aedes albopictus mosquito feeds on a human blood meal. Under experimental conditions the Aedes albopictus mosquito, also known as the Asian tiger mosquito, has been found to be a vector of West Nile virus. Aedes is a genus of the Culicine family of mosquitoes.
  June 30, 2013 - Port Clinton News Herald

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in guardian.co.uk
  Latin America is becoming a noticeable link in the chain of the multi-polar world that is forming,Putin said at his suburban residence at the start of his talks with Chavez. "We will pay more and more attention to this vector of our...
• Tim Berners-Lee in Washington Post
  If you look around at browsers, you'll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics,Berners-Lee said. "I'll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG."
• Gary Payton in Christian Science Monitor
  If these technologies on the vehicle prove to be as good as we estimate, it will make our access to space more responsive, perhaps cheaper, and push us in the vector toward being able to react to warfighter needs more quickly,Payton said.