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virtual
[ vur-choo-uhl ]
adjective
- being as specified in power, force, or effect, though not actually or expressly such:
One of the VPs was the virtual CEO of the company.
- Optics.
- (of an image, such as one in a mirror) formed by the apparent convergence of rays that are prolonged geometrically, but not actually ( real ).
- being a focus of a system forming such images.
- Digital Technology. real, but existing, seen, or happening online or on a digital screen, rather than in person or in the physical world:
You can take a virtual tour of the museum before your visit.
How do I become a virtual personal trainer?
Some students struggle with virtual learning and need the support of a physical classroom.
- Computers.
- (of a computer, data storage device, operating system, etc.) simulated or extended by software, sometimes temporarily, in such a way as to function and appear to the user as a physical entity:
You can create a virtual disk in RAM, or virtual storage on a hard disk.
- relating or belonging to virtual reality:
The headset and controller allow users to do things like draw images and wave wands in the virtual world.
Your swing determines the path of the ball and where it lands on the virtual golf course, just as if it were played on a real one.
virtual
/ ˈvɜːtʃʊəl /
adjective
- having the essence or effect but not the appearance or form of
a virtual revolution
- physics being, relating to, or involving a virtual image
a virtual focus
- computing of or relating to virtual storage
virtual memory
- of or relating to a computer technique by which a person, wearing a headset or mask, has the experience of being in an environment created by the computer, and of interacting with and causing changes in it
- rare.capable of producing an effect through inherent power or virtue
- physics designating or relating to a particle exchanged between other particles that are interacting by a field of force See also exchange force
a virtual photon
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- vir·tu·al·i·ty [vur-choo-, al, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of virtual1
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Example Sentences
Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders cannot be accessed without a virtual private network.
Just download the Virtual Joey App and you are ready to stream DISH service right to that screen.
Their new Virtual Joey app turns your existing PlayStation 3—and soon PS4—into its very own DVR.
The user is then transported into a 360-degree virtual world.
In a virtual world, it revives the relevance of authenticity.
Indeed, individual cases show a virtual lack of self-reliance.
The king, while fully acknowledging Clive's services, thought him guilty of "rapine," and disapproved of his virtual acquittal.
His empire thus consolidated, he would be virtual master of half the solid earth in the Eastern hemisphere.
Their virtual assertion of popular sovereignty was temporarily smothered by imported tyranny in the shape of Sir Edmund Andros.
All the American press is not founded upon this system of virtual blackmail.
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