infector en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɪnˈfɛk.təɹ/
Etymology
From infect + -or.
Meanings
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Something that infects; that which causes infection.
That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a "boot-sector infector" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.
2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, →DOI, pages 1863–1865:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| infectors | Number=Plur | lexicographic |