carrier vs vector

carrier

noun
  • A person or object that carries someone or something else. 

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

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

  • A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms. 

  • A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance. 

  • A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction. 

  • A certified airline. 

  • A charge carrier. 

  • A mobile network operator; wireless carrier. 

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

  • A movable piece in a planetary gear train. 

  • A person or company in the business of shipping freight. 

  • A carrier pigeon. 

  • A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. 

vector

noun
  • A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme. 

  • A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft. 

  • Any member of a (generalized) vector space. 

  • A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality. 

  • 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. 

  • An ordered tuple representing such. 

  • A carrier of a disease-causing agent. 

  • A one-dimensional array. 

  • A graphical representation using outlines; vector graphics. 

  • A DNA molecule used to carry genetic information from one organism into another. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • To redirect to a vector, or code entry point. 

How often have the words carrier and vector occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )