Definition of "virtual" []

• Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name: the virtual extinction of the buffalo. (adjective)
• Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text. (adjective)
• Computer Science Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual conversations in a chatroom. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "* @virtual [optional] - whether a virtual directory function destroyDir ($dir, $virtual = false) $ds = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;"
• "Your fundamental assumption, which recurs throughout the paper, is that the person who is willing to pay the most for a piece of virtual "property" in the *actual* world is the person who will use it the most efficiently in the *virtual* world."
• "For instance, search the term virtual sales training and you will see I hold 3 of the top 4 Google search positions and we didn't pay for clicks to obtain this position."