1 a living thing, too small to be seen without a MICROSCOPE, that causes infectious disease in people, animals and plants:
the flu virus * a virus infection
2 (informal) a disease caused by a virus:
There's a virus going around the office.
3 instructions that are hidden within a computer program and are designed to cause faults or destroy data:
The virus in the software was programmed to corrupt the hard disk.
seealsoVIRAL
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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