Virus — meaning in English
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English meaning
- virus noun A microscopic infectious agent that can only reproduce inside a living host cell, sometimes causing disease.
Senses
Virus is used for these senses in English:
- virus (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
virus — full definition
- noun A microscopic infectious agent that can only reproduce inside a living host cell, sometimes causing disease.
- noun A disease caused by such an agent.
- noun Malicious software that spreads between computers, often damaging files or data.