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taudinkantaja — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Carrier noun A person, vehicle, or company that transports goods, passengers, or messages.
  • vector noun In math and physics, a quantity that has both a size (magnitude) and a direction.

Senses

taudinkantaja is used for these senses in English:

  • carrier (genetics, pathology) A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
  • vector (epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.

Carrier — full definition

  1. noun A person, vehicle, or company that transports goods, passengers, or messages.
  2. noun Someone who carries and can transmit a disease or gene without necessarily showing symptoms.
  3. noun Short for "aircraft carrier," a warship built to launch and land airplanes.

vector — full definition

  1. noun In math and physics, a quantity that has both a size (magnitude) and a direction.
  2. noun An organism, especially an insect, that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another.
  3. noun In computing, a resizable list of elements, or a piece of graphics defined by mathematical outlines rather than pixels.
  4. verb To direct or guide something, especially an aircraft, toward a destination.

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