(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
A variable quantity that can be resolved into components
Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"
A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to dorsal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant. Opposed to dorsal.
(n.) An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
(n.) An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck.
(n.) The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
(v. i.) To hazard one's self; to have the courage or presumption to do, undertake, or say something; to dare.
(v. i.) To make a venture; to run a hazard or risk; to take the chances.
(v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
(v. t.) To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
(n.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
(n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
(n.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.