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virus

noun

1 virus

virology Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: computervirus, smetstof, virus
Polish: wirus

2 virus

A harmful or corrupting agency.

3 virus

A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer:
— A true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance.

synonym: computer virus.

Dutch: computervirus
Polish: wirus


Moby thesaurus: acaricide, adenovirus, aerial infection, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aerobic organism, airborne infection, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anaerobic organism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, autotrophic organism, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bane, being ... show more.

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