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VIRUS

“VIRUS” is a valid word.

8 Scrabble points
10 Words with Friends
5 letters

Definition

noun

  1. 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
  2. a harmful or corrupting agency
  3. a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

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  • ishave the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  • usNorth American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
  • sia tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors