How to Use vector in a Sentence

vector

noun

• An example of this is the pair of blue vectors in the figure below.
  — Madison Goldberg, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2024
• The key vector for aster yellows is the aster leafhopper.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2022
• The basic vector of the Roberts Court remains unchanged.
  — Aziz Huq, Time, 6 July 2023
• Entering Hawaii in the 1930s, the African land snail may have been Hawaii’s first rat lungworm vector.
  — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2022
• As its name implies, graphics here are all made up of vectors.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
• All seeds rely on some sort of vector to disperse seeds.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• One of the big challenges here was converting the image to vectors (lines) that Ameca could draw.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2023
• Few vessels could withstand the vectors moving through the North Atlantic that day.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• And in a steadily warming world, more places are becoming suitable for the disease and the vector that spreads it.
  — Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• On a fully grown bee, an adult varroa is a nuisance and a viral vector.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• In this case, this means the direction of the change in velocity vector is upwards.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
• There have been moments when DeBose has seen things dashing off on a thrilling new vector, where life will never be the same.
  — Alicia Ramírez, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Now it's turned out to be a kind of infection vector of its own—in the hands of one of China's most prolific groups of hackers.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• In the case of ransomware, the impact is obvious, but the source is elusive, as these tools are often seen as the defense, not the attack vector.
  — Ben Finke, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Adenovirus-vector vaccines, like J&J's, use a virus that can act like a Trojan horse.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
• Politicians tend to end up with the vector of causality pointing in the wrong direction.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• In the United States, the lone star tick, found predominantly in the Southeast, has been identified as the vector.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• Farmers have been advised not to flood their paddies with water and to monitor the plants for the presence of the vector on a weekly basis.
  — Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022
• It’s where most pathogens enter our bodies unless you get exposed to them through a cut or a vector like a mosquito or a tick.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
• If Asian fans of Karaoke and ‘social music’ are a pointer, that could be a lucrative vector in future.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Oct. 2022
• The final vector is the recent launch of the movie rental service, which doesn’t require a membership, that has 5,000 titles available.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 July 2023
• Think owls, foxes, and coyotes, who prey on white-footed mice, a vector for lyme disease that ticks catch when feeding on the mice.
  — Benjamin Vogt, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2023
• Scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubonic plague) in the foregut of the flea vector.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 15 June 2022
• Language has been a core vector through which Hong Kongers have resisted state attempts to reshape the identity of their city.
  — Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
• The explainer covers word vectors, transformers, and how LLMs are trained.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023
• That means that only a vector component of the gravitational force will pull that way.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• This combined with the sag in post-election enforcement to make Facebook a key vector for pushing the ideas that fueled violence on Jan. 6.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
• This trend is not going to stop, as Gartner predicts that APIs will be 2022’s primary attack vector.
  — Gene Fay, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• The third vector is seeing people use Roblox more frequently for spontaneous connection on top of the half-hour to one-hour type gameplay.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
• The reason to take notice of the disease and its tiny sand fly vectors now is that researchers are starting to notice more cases are originating in the U.S. than usual.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024