vector : Idioms & Phrases


gene delivery vector

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

  • noun a gauge boson that mediates weak interactions between particles
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liposomal delivery vector

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

  • 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.
Webster 1913

transducing vector

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

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

  • noun the analysis of a vector field
    decomposition.
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vector product

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

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

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

  • noun a transducing vector that uses a retrovirus
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