Relationships Synonym:  logical adj. ~ The conceptual representation (of a thing) apart from its physical implementation; logical.

Something which is a representation rather than the real thing. In advertising, the word "virtually" means "almost."

1almost or very nearly the thing described, so that any slight difference is not important The country was sliding into a state of virtual civil war. The company has a virtual monopoly in this area of [..]

late 14c., "influencing by physical virtues or capabilities, effective with respect to inherent natural qualities," from Medieval Latin virtualis, from Latin virtus "excellence, potency [..]

very close to being something without actually being it.

A quality used to describe a situation where a computer simulates aspects of an activity or device but the activity or device does not have a physical form.

Pertaining to a device or facility that does not physically exist, yet behaves as if it does. For example, a system with 4 megabytes of virtual memory may have only one megabyte of physical memory plu [..]

[via the technical term `virtual memory', prob. from the term `virtual image' in optics] adj. 1. Common alternative to logical; often used to refer to the artificial objects created by a com [..]

Jensens Internet Dictionary a seeming reality that lacks some elements of total reality. Since the early days of computing, simulation has become the most common form of achieving virtual worlds for learning and research. The term "virtual" is now loosely applied in many contexts. At one extreme it is applied to most anything connected wi [..]

A function in a module that is called on module load to determine whether or not the module should be available to a minion. This function commonly contains logic to determine if all requirements for a module are available, such as external libraries.

Not real. The term virtual is popular among computer scientists and is used in a wide variety of situations. In general, it distinguishes something that is merely conceptual from something that has ph [..]

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An adjective referring to activities, objects, beings, and places that have no actual physical reality because they exist only in digital form (in cyberspace), for example, an e-mail "box" o [..]

1. A commonly used adjective that means having all of the properties of x while not necessarily being x. For example, "virtual Friday" in a workplace is the last day of work before a break, that is to say it is like Friday but may or may not actually be Friday. A "virtual reality" is an artificial environment that appears to be [..]

Not concrete or physical. For instance, a completely virtual university does not have actual buildings but instead holds classes over the Internet.

Conceptual or appearing to be, rather than actually being.

Virtual in C++ means overrideable. In Java all methods are assumed overrideable unless marked final (or private which implies final). Virtual has yet another meaning in C++. When you inherit from seve [..]

(adj) existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact(adj) being actually such in almost every respect

A computer-generated environment.

Simulated or conceptual, not physical in nature. In distance learning, the term "virtual classroom" refers to the online environment in which students and instructors interact.

Providing the appearance of something without the reality, as in: virtual memory is not real memory. (See also memory.) The opposite of "virtual" is "transparent", which means providing the reality of something without the appearance, as in: Perl handles the variable-length UTF-8 character encoding transparently.

Providing the appearance of something without the reality, as in: virtual memory is not real memory. (See also memory

keyword used to declare a member function virtual.

function pointer - a pointer to a class' virtual function table.

function table - table of all virtual functions for a class. The most common way of implementing virtual functions is to have each object of a class with virtual functions contain a virtual functio [..]

A grandfathered geocache type where geocachers discover locations rather than containers. The requirements for logging a Virtual Cache vary—you may be required to answer a question about the location, [..]

TEMPERATURE Virtual temperature is a fictitious temperature that takes into account moisture in the air. The formal definition of virtual temperature is the temperature that dry air would have if its [..]

An item may sometimes be described as being a virtual item when it is a representation or non-tangible abstraction of the physical object, or is a functional emulation or simulation of it. Virtual may [..]

Virtual (foaled 10 May 2005) is a thoroughbred racehorse who won the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury in 2009. Virtual is a bay horse who was sired by Pivotal out of Virtuous. He was bred and owned by Cheve [..]

A computer-generated environment.