Usually means: Stimulate immunity against infectious diseases.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word vaccines:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. vaccines: Merriam-Webster
  2. vaccines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. vaccines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Vaccines, vaccine's, vaccines: Wordnik
  5. vaccines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. vaccines: Wiktionary
  7. vaccines: Dictionary.com
  8. vaccines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Vaccines, Vaccines: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Vaccines: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vaccines: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. vaccines: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Vaccines: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Vaccines: Medical dictionary
  6. Vaccines: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See vaccine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vaccine)

adjective:  (historical)
adjective:  (medicine) Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
adjective:  (immunology) Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
adjective:  (archaic) Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
noun:  (immunology)
noun:  A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
noun:  The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
noun:  (historical) material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
noun:  (also medicine, obsolete) The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
noun:  (computing) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) Synonym of vaccinate (“to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”)
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