Vector

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Origin

New Latin, from Latin, carrier, from vehere to carry

Definitions

b : a course or compass direction especially of an airplane
  • 2a : an organism (as an insect) that transmits a pathogen
b : pollinator
  • 3: 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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