infector

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/ɪnˈfɛk.təɹ/

noun

Something that infects; that which causes infection.

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Meanings

nouninfector (plural infectors)

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

Origin

From infect + -or.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infector,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infector.

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