noun
- organisms that do not transmit disease-causing pathogens to other organisms
- mathematical objects or quantities that are not vectors
Usage: medical; biological
Usage: mathematics; physics
Examples
- Most household pets are nonvectors for malaria transmission.
- Butterflies are typically nonvectors for human diseases.
- In this equation, we separate the vectors from the nonvectors.
- Temperature and pressure are examples of nonvectors in physics.
- The study focused on identifying nonvectors in the local ecosystem.
- Scalar quantities are nonvectors that have magnitude but no direction.