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Defenition of the word virus

    • Defenition of the word virus

      • Submicroscopic agents that infect plants, animals and bacteria, and are unable to reproduce outside the tissues of the host. (Source: ALL)
      • Computer program that is designed to damage a computer and that is able to spread itself to other computers.
      • ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic
      • (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
      • 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"
      • a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone"
      • a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
      • a harmful or corrupting agency

    Synonyms for the word virus

      • computervirus
      • krankheitserreger

    Hyponyms for the word virus

      • animal virus
      • arborvirus
      • arbovirus
      • bacteriophage
      • bootvirus
      • dna-virus
      • hiv
      • linkvirus
      • makrovirus
      • pc-virus
      • phage
      • plant virus
      • retrovirus
      • rna-virus
      • slow virus
      • tumor virus
      • vector

    Hypernyms for the word virus

      • agency
      • delegacy
      • infectious agent
      • infective agent
      • malevolent program
      • micro-organism
      • microorganism
      • representation
      • schadensprogramm

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