adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 almost 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 trade. * He married a virtual stranger. * When her husband had a stroke, she was given virtual control of the business.
2 made to appear to exist by the use of computer SOFTWARE:
virtual memory / space * New technology has enabled development of an online 'virtual library'.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for virtual is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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