- 1. n (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 n a harmful or corrupting agency n a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer Source: ecdict
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