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English noun: virus | |||
| 1. | virus (animal) (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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | infectious agent, infective agent, micro-organism, microorganism | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | animal virus, arborvirus, arbovirus, bacteriophage, phage, plant virus, slow virus, tumor virus, vector | ||
| Domain category | virology | ||
| Domain category members | atrophic arthritis, inoculant, inoculum, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, virion | ||
| 2. | virus (state) a harmful or corrupting agency | ||
| Samples | Bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread. The virus of jealousy is latent in everyone. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agency, delegacy, representation | ||
| 3. | virus (communication) a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer | ||
| Samples | A true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance. | ||
| Synonyms | computer virus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | malevolent program | ||
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