virus vs agency

agency vs virus

virus and agency both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
virus	Yes	No	No	No
agency	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, agency is a hypernym of virus; that is, agency is a word with a broader meaning than virus:

virus: a harmful or corrupting agency
agency: the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent

Other hypernyms of virus include delegacy, representation.

virus (noun)	agency (noun)
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein	to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer	an administrative unit of government
a harmful or corrupting agency	a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties
	the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
	the state of being in action or exerting power

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