Carrier vs. Vector

Carriernoun

A person or object that carries someone or something else.

Carriernoun

A carrier pigeon, a newspaperese term (misnomer) for a homing pigeon, racing pigeon, racing homer, homer.

Carriernoun

An Old English carrier pigeon or Old English carrier (the "King of the Doos").

Carriernoun

A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

Carriernoun

A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.

Carriernoun

A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.

Carriernoun

A certified airline.

Carriernoun

(engineering) That which drives or carries.

Carriernoun

A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.

Carriernoun

A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

Carriernoun

A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Carriernoun

(chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.

Carriernoun

A person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait, mutation or infectious disease, but displays no symptoms.

Carriernoun

charge carrier

Carriernoun

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

Carriernoun

One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.

Carriernoun

That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Carriernoun

someone whose employment involves carrying something;

Carriernoun

a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something;

Carriernoun

a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take-offs and landings

Carriernoun

an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

Carriernoun

a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

Carriernoun

a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

Carriernoun

a man who delivers the mail

Carriernoun

a boy who delivers newspapers

Carriernoun

a person who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

Carriernoun

a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

Vectornoun

(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.

Vectornoun

(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points.

Vectornoun

(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.

Vectornoun

(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.

Vectornoun

(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.

Vectornoun

(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.

Vectornoun

(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.

Vectornoun

The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.en

Vectornoun

A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced and jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.

Vectornoun

(programming) A one-dimensional array.

Vectornoun

A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics.

Vectornoun

(molecular biology) A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another.

Vectorverb

To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.

Vectorverb

(computing) To redirect to a vector, or code entry point.

Vectornoun

Same as Radius vector.

Vectornoun

A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same and their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.

Vectornoun

a variable quantity that can be resolved into components

Vectornoun

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

Vectornoun

any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease;