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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a virtual stranger (= someone you hardly know ) ▪ I hadn't seen him for so long that he seemed like a virtual stranger. virtual extinction (= being very nearly extinct ) ▪ The deer has been hunted to virtual extinction. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Virtual may refer to: Virtual reality (virtuality), the quality of having the attributes of something without sharing its (real or imagined) physical form Virtual , a 2001 album by Romanian band Animal X Virtual channel , a channel designation which differs ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin" [syn: virtual(a) , practical(a) ] being such in essence or effect though not in actual fact; "a virtual dependence on charity"; "a virtual ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "influencing by physical virtues or capabilities, effective with respect to inherent natural qualities," from Medieval Latin virtualis , from Latin virtus "excellence, potency, efficacy," literally "manliness, manhood" (see virtue ). The meaning ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated. 2 Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential. 3 nearly, almost. (''A relatively recent corruption of meaning, ...
Usage examples of virtual.
She knew that Ambler had told a number of peoplehis ex-wife, his associates, even virtual strangersthat his life goal was not to amass a huge reservoir of money.
But the history, the astrography shows-the virtual instructor was the funniest program.
It was barkless and I could never understand the purpose of a dog that was a virtual mute.
According to the SG, at the center of the object are excitons, and virtual particles warping configurational Fermi space.
The Extropians yearn for the virtual bodies of uploading, where they will dwell in cyber-heaven forever.
When, two days after my frightful crawl through that crypt of the eyes and claw, I learned that a thing had malignly hovered twenty miles away at the same instant the eyes were glaring at me, I experienced virtual convulsions of fright.
In the truest fashion of every light weapon developed by a committee, the procurement system finally developed specifications for the manjacks that transformed them from the original concept of a light, relatively simple automatic weapon on an automated tripod, into a virtual mini-tank.
Those Medusan locks presumably comprise the virtual individual which has moved this Innocent Eve hither and yon drroughout the world, fascinating her appointed victims and luring them to the acceptance of her fatal kisses.
Those Medusan locks presumably comprise the virtual individual which has moved this Innocent Eve hither and yon throughout the world, fascinating her appointed victims and luring them to the acceptance of her fatal kisses.
Caliphate mathematical technique to establish a metastable equilibrium that allows convex regions with real and virtual histories to coexist in four-dimensional space-time, while remaining both topologically distinct and contiguous in five-space.
She had even been there once, when Multiplane had been negotiating to buy out a competitor, had stayed in the cool and perfect rooms, screened from electronic snooping, live spies, and the threat of raiders real or virtual, and had hated every minute of it.
Control of laboring activity can potentially be individualized and continuous in the virtual panopticon of network production.
For example, the carceral architecture of the panopticon, which makes inmates constantly visible to a central point of power, is the diagram or virtual design that is actualized in the various disciplinary dispositifs.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
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