Noun: vehicle vee-i-kul
- A conveyance that transports people or objects
"The spacecraft was an advanced vehicle designed for interplanetary travel"
- A medium for the expression or achievement of something
"the play was just a vehicle to display her talents"; "his editorials provided a vehicle for his political views"; "a congregation is a vehicle of group identity"
- Any substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment or other material that is mixed with it
"The pharmacist used a cream as a vehicle for the medication"
- Any inanimate object (as a towel, money, clothing, dishes, books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another
"The researchers studied doorknobs as potential vehicles in the spread of the virus";
- fomite
Derived forms: vehicles
Type of: article, conveyance, medium, object, physical object, transport
Encyclopedia: Vehicle