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: a quantity that has magnitude and direction and that is usually represented by part of a straight line with the given direction and with a length representing the magnitude
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: an organism (as an insect) that transmits a pathogen from one organism or source to another <fleas are vectors of plague>—compare carrier
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: 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
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