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vector

[vek-ter] / ˈvɛk tər /


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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 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

Hurricanes turned out to be a vector for spreading the little winged bug.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Ifx represents the vector of variables, b and c are vectors of known coefficients, and A is a matrix of coefficients, determine the maximum value of the objective function cTx .

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

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

He has, also, ingeniously arranged his horizontal, vertical and diagonal vectors within a gigantic, symbolic, circular frame.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Platner’s tattoo, then, is a particularly charged showdown between vectors of progressivism headed in opposite directions—the old world and the new.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2026

This time, it took Jake less than five minutes to complete the complex series of equations and find his vectors.

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

An F-47 aircraft on combat air patrol in the area was vectored in visually, spotted a light, and closed on it.

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

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

From there the process was straightforward with vectoring to motion to completion.

From The Verge Dec. 28, 2017

A brake torque vectoring system similar to the one on the Volkswagen GTI pulses all four wheels to keep Alltrack’s trajectory true.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 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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