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vector

[vek-ter] / ˈvɛk tər /


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West Nile virus was first recognized in the West Nile District of Uganda in 1937, according to the vector control district.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

“The threat vector has gone from Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johansson to anyone who has a single image of themselves online,” said Hany Farid, a digital forensics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

I first came to wear the badge of foodie in college in the aughts, a time when the term meant leading with curiosity, a vector for discovering and exploring new cultures and ideas.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2026

AI adoption is another market vector building momentum.

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

An outbreak of yellow fever in Trinidad in 1954 followed failure to control the vector mosquito because of resistance.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Light possesses many characteristics that researchers can manipulate, including its intensity, phase, polarization, spin, and its electric and magnetic field vectors.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

A former Jack Smith prosecutor and a veteran corruption reporter map the vectors for lawlessness that many have missed.

From Slate May 23, 2026

Fair enough, but mosquitoes do convey an enormous disease burden, as vectors, to human beings.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Jake started adding in vectors and angles and working the equations along with Mr. Keeney.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

The two jets were vectored into the areas where the radar had shown the last target plots, but even though the visibility was excellent they could see nothing.

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

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 electric motors that independently drive the left and right front wheels also provide torque vectoring for all-wheel drive taken to a new level of cornering precision.

From Seattle Times Dec. 21, 2016

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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