An organism (as an insect) that transmits disease, a pathogen, or an organism that transmits genes, a pollinator.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
vector (noun)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 airplane
2.
a) 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
transitive verb
1.
to guide (as an airplane, its pilot, or a missile) in flight by means of a radioed vector
2.
to change the direction of (the thrust of a jet engine) for steering
Vector (Wikipedia)
Vector most often refers to:
- Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism
- Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction
Vector may also refer to:
Bearer, Messenger, Conveyor, Transporter, Channel