"infector" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "infect + -or.",
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      "form": "infectors",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, →DOI, pages 1863–1865",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something that infects; that which causes infection."
      ],
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        [
          "infect",
          "infect"
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          "infection",
          "infection"
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  "word": "infector"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that infects; that which causes infection."
      ],
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  "word": "infector"
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