vector

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Medicine Technical

n. an insect or animal that carries a disease from one person to another.

n. an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a pathogen from one host to another.

“Mosquitoes are the primary vector for spreading malaria in this region.”

“Public health officials focused on eliminating stagnant water to reduce the population of the biological vector responsible for the outbreak.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Computing Technical

n. a list of data items that can change in size.

n. a data structure representing a one-dimensional array that can be dynamically resized.

“The programmer used a vector to store the list of user names.”

“The algorithm's efficiency improved significantly after we replaced the static array with a dynamic vector to handle fluctuating data loads.”

C2 · Proficiency Science Technical

v. to give a pilot directions to fly a certain course.

v. to guide an aircraft in a particular direction using radio instructions.

“The air traffic controller had to vector the plane around the storm.”

“The pilot requested that the tower vector them toward the secondary runway due to the increasing crosswinds.”