odorivector
English
Etymology
odor (“smell”) + vector (“bearer”)
Noun
odorivector (plural odorivectors)
- A material that emits an odor.
- 1964 July 1, Andrew Dravnieks, “Physicochemical basis of olfaction”, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 116, number 2:
- It is generally accepted that odorivector molecules must reach chemosensors physically; liaison by radiation through distance has never been proved and seems highly unlikely.
- 1981, Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture:
- So, on the one hand, the odorivector gives the observer cues about polysensory space, that is if all the mechanical envelopes, viz., acoustic and haptic, coincide and so constitute, with the osmotic, a hermetic space; and he interprets the cues by 'associative concatenation'.
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