1 a small amount, usually one that develops into something large or important:
2 a very small organism that causes disease:
The patient has little natural resistance to germs.
3 the origin of something that develops, esp. a cell from which grain grows or the beginning of an idea:
Alejandro’s suggestion was the germ of an idea.
Cover your nose when you sneeze - we don't want all your germs!
I dread to think how many germs are living in that filthy kitchen.
Germs can be spread very easily in hospitals unless there are strict hygiene rules in place.
At a quasi-regularly nice critical point w the local quasi-regular extension of f is not unique, only the germs of the analytic extensions are unique.
The well-to-do class of our society is dragging its women out of their homes to be infected by the same germs of westernism that have already spoiled our male population.
Finitely generated groups of germs of one-dimensional conformal mappings, and invariants for complex singular points of analytic foliations of the complex plane.
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