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anti-virus

anti-virus is the alternative spelling of antivirus.

Meaning of antivirus

Noun

antivirus (plural antiviruses)

  1. A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.

Forms of anti-virus

pluralanti-viruses

Questions about anti-virus

What is anti-virus the alternative spelling of?
Anti-virus is the alternative spelling of antivirus.

Words near anti-virus in the dictionary

  1. anti-Viagra
  2. anti-Vietnamese
  3. anti-villain
  4. anti-villains
  5. anti-viral
  6. anti-virus
  7. anti-viruses
  8. anti-war
  9. anti-westernism
  10. anti-whale
  11. anti-white

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-virus (page history and authors); antivirus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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