How to Use vector in a Sentence

vector

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • Local transmission is now being reported in America’s warmer, wetter states, where the disease’s vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, already roams.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Azure takes a similar approach by offering vector database extensions to existing databases.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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vector

2 of 2 verb
  • Those rear motors can rotate at different speeds to afford the e-Evo torque vectoring across its aft axle.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Torque vectoring all-wheel drive is a $2,200 option with either engine.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Among its safety features are seven air bags and all-wheel traction control with torque vectoring to help keep drivers out of the spin cycle.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • In this case, take the attractive but dull-to-drive A7 fastback and give it a twin-turbo V8, uprated suspension, and a clever torque-vectoring rear diff, then build a few thousand each year.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The QF’s handling is also aided by a torque-vectoring rear differential that can send 100 percent of the torque to either rear wheel, as traction and driving modes dictate.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2018
  • All-wheel drive is standard while a torque-vectoring rear diff lends credibility to the notion of naming a crossover after a mountain road with 48 hairpin turns.
    — Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Modern thrust vectoring technology employs a movable thrust nozzle in place of the paddles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
  • An electric motor at each axle provides the all-wheel-drive Cross Turismo with a combined 590 horsepower as well as torque-vectoring abilities.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The all-wheel drive system is rear biased and electronically controlled, with full-time dynamic torque vectoring control.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • An optional torque vectoring system pulses the inside rear brake caliper in tandem with the rear differential for more stability.
    — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2016
  • Taiwan’s Hawkeyes would be used during wartime to coordinate defense against enemy air attack, detecting incoming fighters at longer ranges and vectoring the island’s fighters to intercept.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2019
  • Audi's torque vectoring rear differential is also fitted.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Those rear motors can rotate at different speeds to afford the e-Evo torque vectoring across its aft axle.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Torque vectoring all-wheel drive is a $2,200 option with either engine.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Among its safety features are seven air bags and all-wheel traction control with torque vectoring to help keep drivers out of the spin cycle.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • In this case, take the attractive but dull-to-drive A7 fastback and give it a twin-turbo V8, uprated suspension, and a clever torque-vectoring rear diff, then build a few thousand each year.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The QF’s handling is also aided by a torque-vectoring rear differential that can send 100 percent of the torque to either rear wheel, as traction and driving modes dictate.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2018
  • All-wheel drive is standard while a torque-vectoring rear diff lends credibility to the notion of naming a crossover after a mountain road with 48 hairpin turns.
    — Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Modern thrust vectoring technology employs a movable thrust nozzle in place of the paddles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
  • An electric motor at each axle provides the all-wheel-drive Cross Turismo with a combined 590 horsepower as well as torque-vectoring abilities.
    — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The all-wheel drive system is rear biased and electronically controlled, with full-time dynamic torque vectoring control.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • An optional torque vectoring system pulses the inside rear brake caliper in tandem with the rear differential for more stability.
    — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2016
  • Taiwan’s Hawkeyes would be used during wartime to coordinate defense against enemy air attack, detecting incoming fighters at longer ranges and vectoring the island’s fighters to intercept.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2019
  • Audi's torque vectoring rear differential is also fitted.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2017

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