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1. Physics being, relating to, or involving a virtual image

2. of or relating to a computer technique by which a person, wearing a headset or mask, has the experience of being in an environment created by the computer, and of interacting with and causing changes in it

3. Physics designating or relating to a particle exchanged between other particles that are interacting by a field of force

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Virtual

Pertaining to conceptual rather than physical.

virtual

(jargon, architecture)

(Via the technical term virtual memory, probably from the term "virtual image" in optics) 1. Common alternative to logical; often used to refer to the artificial objects (like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory) created by a computer system to help the system control access to shared resources.

2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't really there. An imaginative child's doll may be a virtual playmate.

Opposite of real or physical.

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