Virtual Definition

vûrcho͝o-əl
adjective
Being such practically or in effect, although not in actual fact or name.
A virtual impossibility.
Webster's New World

Designating or of a kind of memory (sense 8b) that makes use of disk space to supplement main memory while large programs are being executed.

Webster's New World
Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.
American Heritage
Of, pertaining to, or taking place in cyberspace or in virtual reality.
Virtual shopping.
Webster's New World
Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network.
Virtual conversations in a chatroom.
American Heritage
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noun
(computing) In C++, a virtual member function of a class.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Virtual

Noun

Singular:
virtual
Plural:
virtuals

Origin of Virtual

  • Middle English virtuall effective from Medieval Latin virtuālis from Latin virtūs excellence virtue

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin virtuālis, from virtus (“virtue").

    From Wiktionary

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