vector : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a vector for delivering genes into cells
  gene delivery vector.
  

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• noun a gauge boson that mediates weak interactions between particles
  

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• noun a transducing vector that uses liposomes to carry the gene of interest
  

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• noun a line connecting a satellite to the center of the body around which it is rotating
  
• noun a line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar coordinate system
  

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Ra"di*us vec"tor

Definitions

1. (Math.) A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coördinates. See Coördinate, n.
2. (Astron.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.

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• noun a vector for delivering genes into cells
  gene delivery vector.
  

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• noun the part of algebra that deals with the theory of vectors and vector spaces
  

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• noun the analysis of a vector field
  decomposition.
  

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• noun a vector that is the product of two other vectors
  cross product.
  

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• noun a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors
  resultant.
  

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• noun indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vector bites or touches a person
  

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• noun a transducing vector that uses a retrovirus
  

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