vectors

Meanwhile, brown dog ticks — vectors for the bacterial infection Ehrlichiosis — are trekking north from Mexico into Southern California.

"I would like to think in an area such as this our expertise built up over time in relation to attack vectors would mean something."

They may be disease vectors, but no, the FBI did not think they were terrorists.

Finally, his voice came in clear as he said, “I need some vectors. The plane keeps turning on me.”

From myriad vectors, media outlets put women in their place for being uppity, incompetent, or vulgar.