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

Singular:

virtual

Plural:

virtuals

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