vector

vector is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Radius vector. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Same as Radius vector.
2. noun. A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
3. noun. (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
4. noun. a variable quantity that can be resolved into components
5. noun. any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

   "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"

   "fleas are vectors of the plague"

   Synonyms: transmitter

6. noun. a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

Synonyms

transmitter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in vector:

corvet, covert

Common word forms

vectors, vectored, vectoring, vectorise, vectorize

Words from these letters

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