1. A partly enclosed, directly heated surface from which warm air circulates by convection.
2. A space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection.
A term for a motor vehicle which has a relatively small production output and that is sold to a specific component to the over all market; such as, an expensive sports car.
The carrying of disease germs from an infected person to a well person.
It is circumferential, indirect, or mediate when pathogens are carried by an intermediate host; direct, immediate, and radial when transferred directly from one person to another.
1. Mathematics: A quantity, such as velocity, completely specified by a magnitude and a direction; a one-dimensional array; an element of a vector space.
2. Pathology: An organism: such as, a mosquito or tick, that carries disease-causing microorganisms from one host to another.
A reference to any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; for example, mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever; fleas are vectors of the plague; aphids are transmitters of plant diseases; and when medical scientists refer to vectors they are usually talking about insects.
3. Genetics: A bacteriophage, plasmid, or other agent that transfers genetic material from one cell to another.
4. A force or influence.
5. A course or direction, as of an airplane.
6. An operating system: A memory location containing the address of some code, often some kind of exception handler or other operating system service. By changing the vector to point to a different piece of code it is possible to modify the behavior of the operating system.
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