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vector

[vek-ter] / ˈvɛk tər /


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"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

Last year, Orange County’s vector control detected West Nile virus in four mosquito pools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

Max made a pouty face and spun around to face the shifting digital wallpaper behind him—currently a pattern of multicolored vector lines.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Working with our partners at Bendable Labs, we have carefully selected 30 data points that provide insights into company performance across six different vectors: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

The number includes very dangerous malaria vectors in West Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Indonesia, and the eastern European region.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Radar couldn't pick it up so the two airplanes were just vectored into the general area.

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

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019

Thanks to the advent of brake-based torque vectoring, these Renegades can also shift up to 100% of driveline torque side to side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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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