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vector

[vek-ter] / ˈvɛk tər /


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“And citronella has a long history of repelling mosquitos,” says Daniel Markowski, a vector ecologist and technical advisor for the AMCA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Employees also frequently job-hop between companies, creating an additional vector for information leakage or misappropriation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Beyond fundamental importance, this discovery can enable novel planar device architectures and sensor types, such as vector magnetometry, via measuring the out-of-plane and in-plane anomalous Hall effect signals in the same device," Singh said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Because we focus so much on the kind of retroactive or reactionary human caseload, we miss the opportunity to control the vector and to understand more about the vector,” LaDeau said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

"CAPCOM, advise Hermes they're drifting. Telemetry, get a correction vector ready—" "Negative, Flight," Telemetry interrupted.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

But that’s only because Lee, in his finest screenplay to date, has laid out precisely where his vectors of hardship, exploitation, pent-up anguish and hidden desire are going to converge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Dane Knecht, chief technology officer at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare, said he was, external "seeing early attacks emerging and are updating mitigations as new vectors show up".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

"DeepSeek's models present multiple threat vectors," said a document attached to Monday's notice.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

These vectors amplify market dislocations as multiple participants simultaneously unwind positions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

You can feel the vectored torque tugging at the wheel as it fights off understeer in a tight turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

“If that is the case it will raise questions about how it is vectored between such geographically separated sites.”

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023

Pentagon spokesman John Supple said the military has no reports of “aircraft being inappropriately vectored in the region mentioned” in the notice.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

“The results are plausible, and not very different to those seen with other AdV vectored products,” he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2020

An F-94 in the area was contacted and visually vectored to the light by the tower operators.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

But “Death of an Author” is arguably the first halfway readable A.I. novel, an early glimpse at what is vectoring toward readers.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

He said that’s a much more advanced method of thrust vectoring than a previous method traditionally used on the North’s solid motor missiles.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

One idea Lexus put forward with this concept is something called “Direct4,” which is the automaker’s version of torque vectoring that would drive power to each wheel independently, improving grip in high-performance situations.

From The Verge ● Apr. 5, 2022

Of the more than 3,500 mosquito species, only a few hundred are capable of vectoring disease.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

The reporters and photographers were asked to leave the radar room on the pretext that classified radio frequencies and procedures were being used in vectoring the interceptors.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt


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