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1 a: a quantity that has magnitude and direction and that is commonly represented by a directed line segment whose length represents the magnitude and whose orientation in space represents the direction
; broadly : an element of a vector space b: a course or compass direction especially of an airplane2 a: an organism (as an insect) that transmits a pathogen b: pollinator a3: an agent (as a plasmid or virus) that contains or carries modified genetic material (as recombinant DNA) and can be used to introduce exogenous genes into the genome of an organism
— vector adjective
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