Look up: worm

1. WORM
   Write-Once-Read-Many. A CD-ROM is a typical WORM medium: the CD-ROM is written once when it is etched and it cannot be written to again. However, it can be read any number of times.
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2. WORM
   WORM is an abbreviation for Write Once, Read Many times
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3. Worm
   Worm is Black-American slang for "to study"
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4. worm
   replacing bug and virus, worm is the new word of menace on the web. Worms, such as 2001's Code Red and Nimda, are malicious programs which spread across networks looking for vulnerable machines to infect.
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5. worm
   [n] - has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect 2. [n] - screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack 3. [n] - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes
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6. WORM
   Write Once, Read Many
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7. worm
   A form of computer virus which propagates around networks, usually by exploiting vulnerabilities in an email client or UA.
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8. WORM
   Write-Once-Read-Many. Characteristic of digital storage medium on which data can be recorded once and read many times. The written data cannot subsequently be modified.
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9. Worm
   As opposed to earthworm worms are generally intestinal worms of livestock which are normally contracted by infected pasture. Animals may be treated with anthelmintics to control worms.
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10. Worm
    Similar to viruses but they do not need a carrier program or document. They typically spread themselves without any action by a computer user. Worms simply create exact copies of themselves and travel between connected computers by exploiting security "holes" in the computer's operating system. As the worm spreads, it can create a lot of traffic on...
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11. Worm
    the Internet equivalent of a virus - it replicates itself and is self propagating
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12. Worm
    A worm is a program that can replicate itself by sending copies in e-mail messages or over a network.
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13. Worm
    A computer program that replicates independently by sending itself to other systems.
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14. Worm
    The threaded cylinder or shaft designed to mesh with a worm gear. See also: Gear Design, Worm Gear.
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15. worm
    (networking, security) (From "Tapeworm" in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC) A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes. Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms. Perhaps the best-known example was the Great Worm. Compa…
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16. WORM
    Write-Once Read-Many
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17. worm
    an independent program which can travel from computer to computer across network connections replicating itself in each computer Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the driving screw of a worm gearing Category: Physics • The European 'snake' is the agreement between five members of the EEC to maintain their respective currencies within certain…
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18. Worm
    A self-replicating virus that eventually leads to the infected computer crashing.
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19. Worm
    Write Once Read Many. Most common to optical disks. Worm refers to data storage that cannot be change once written. However, it may be read as many times as desired.
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20. Worm
    Worm (wûrm) noun [ Middle English worm , wurm , Anglo-Saxon wyrm ; akin to Dutch worm , Old Saxon & German wurm , Icelandic ormr , Swedish & Danish orm , Goth. waúrms , Latin vermis , Greek ... a wood worm. Confer Vermicelli , Vermilion , Vermin .] 1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size …
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21. Worm
    Worm intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wormed ; present participle & verbal noun Worming .] To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. « When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded.» Herbert.
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22. Worm
    Worm transitive verb 1. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out . « They find themselves wormed out of all power.» Swift. « They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.» Dickens. 2. To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, …
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23. worm
    1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. "There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer." (Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4)) "'T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the swor …
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24. worm
    noun any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
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25. worm
    noun screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
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