Look up: Virtual

1. Virtual
   A computer-generated environment.
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2. virtual
   [Adjective] Near. With characteristics of the real thing, without being the real thing.
   Example: The building was in a state of virtual collapse after the earthquake.
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3. Virtual
   Term applied to anything which mimics reality. While machines or applications appear to be 'real' they are only representations or imitations. Virtual Reality, which makes you appear to be in a location which you are not physically in, and Virtual Machines, which are computers which do not physically exist, are both examples of Virtual Items.
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4. Virtual
   pertaining to a conceptual,rather than physical presence,e.g.a functional simulation of an equipment unit(computer and its associated devices).Examples:virtual storage,virtual data,virtual circuit Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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5. Virtual
   Vir'tu·al adjective [ Confer French virtuel . See Virtue .] 1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. « Heat and cold have a virtual...
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6. Virtual
   • (a.) Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. • (a.) Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
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7. virtual
   virtual 1. Being something in effect even if not in reality or not conforming to the generally accepted definition of the term. 2. In physics, used to describe a particle whose existence is suggested to explain observed phenomena but is not proven or directly observable. 3. With computer technology,...
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8. virtual
   (jargon, architecture) (Via the technical term virtual memory, probably from the term 'virtual image' in optics) 1. Common alternative to logical; often used to refer to the artificial objects (like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory) created by a computer system to help the syst...
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9. virtual
   In computing, without physical existence. Most computers have virtual memory, making their immediate-access memory seem larger than it is. Virtual reality is a computer simulation of a whole physical environment
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10. Virtual
    The term `virtual` is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations. The term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the salient qualities of the real. Colloquially, `virtual` is used to mea...
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11. Virtual
    (philosophy) The virtual is anything that is treated "as if" it was actually real. Recently this conception of the virtual has been challenged and another core meaning has been elicited by (Denis Berthier, "Meditations on the real and the virtual" — in French), base...
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12. Virtual
    (computing) The word virtual has been applied to computing and information technology with various meanings. It is used of software systems that act as if they were date=August 2009--> (virtual machine, virtual memory, virtual disk), of computer-generated simulations of reality (virtua...
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