French Meaning of viruses
virus
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Definitions and Meaning of viruses in English
viruses
an antigenic but not infectious material (as vaccine lymph) obtainable from a case of an infectious disease, a computer program that is usually hidden within another seemingly harmless program and that produces copies of itself and inserts them into other programs and usually performs a malicious action (as destroying data) compare trojan horse sense 2, worm sense 5, venom sense 1, something that poisons the mind or soul, a computer program that is usually disguised as an innocuous program or file, that often produces copies of itself and inserts them into other programs, and that when run usually performs a malicious action (such as destroying data or damaging software), any of a large group of submicroscopic, infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving, extremely complex molecules or sometimes as very simple microorganisms, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants, a disease or illness caused by a virus, the causative agent of an infectious disease, any of a large group of very tiny infectious agents that are too small to be seen with the ordinary light microscope but can often be seen with the electron microscope, that are usually regarded as nonliving complex molecules, that have an outside coat of protein around a core of RNA or DNA, that can grow and multiply only in living cells, and that cause important diseases in plants and animals including human beings compare filterable virus, a disease caused by a virus, filterable virus, any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants
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virus
an antigenic but not infectious material (as vaccine lymph) obtainable from a case of an infectious disease, a computer program that is usually hidden within an
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