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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024vac•cine /vækˈsin/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Immunologya preparation introduced into the body to prevent a disease by causing the body to produce antibodies against it, usually a weakened substance containing the virus causing the disease against which the body can react.
- Computinga software program that helps to protect against computer viruses.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024vac•cine (vak sēn′ or, esp. Brit., vak′sēn, -sin),USA pronunciation n. - Immunologyany preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- Microbiologythe virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person.
- Computinga software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.
adj. - of or pertaining to vaccination.
- of or pertaining to vaccinia.
- of, pertaining to, or derived from cows.
- Neo-Latin (variolae) vaccīnae cowpox (in title of English. Jenner's treatise of 1798), equivalent. to vacc(a) cow + -īnae, feminine plural of -īnus -ine1
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: vaccine /ˈvæksiːn/ n - a suspension of dead, attenuated, or otherwise modified microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae) for inoculation to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies
- (originally) a preparation of the virus of cowpox taken from infected cows and inoculated in humans to produce immunity to smallpox
- (modifier) of or relating to vaccination or vaccinia
- a piece of software designed to detect and remove computer viruses from a system
Etymology: 18th Century: from New Latin variolae vaccīnae cowpox, title of medical treatise (1798) by Edward Jenner, from Latin vacca a cow |