viral

  1. Adjective.  (virology) Of or relating to a biological virus.
  2. Adjective.  (virology) Caused by a virus.
  3. Adjective.  (computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
  4. Adjective.  (advertising, and) Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest.
  5. Noun.  (context, marketing) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.