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infectors

infectors is the plural of infector.

Meaning of infector

Noun

infector (plural infectors)

  1. 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

Questions about infectors

What is infectors the plural of?
Infectors is the plural of infector.

Words near infectors in the dictionary

  1. infectologists
  2. infectology
  3. infectome
  4. infectomes
  5. infector
  6. infectors
  7. infectress
  8. infectresses
  9. infects
  10. infectuous
  11. infecund

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