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An item may sometimes be described as being a virtual item when it is a representation or non-tangible abstraction of the physical object, or is a functional emulation or simulation of it.
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 World, a computer-based simulated environment populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others.
- Virtual channel, a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel (or range of frequencies) on which the signal travels
- Virtual function, a programming function or method whose behaviour can be overridden within an inheriting class by a function with the same signature
- Virtual memory, a memory management technique that abstracts the memory address space in a computer, allowing each process to have a dedicated address space
- Virtual particle, a type of short-lived particle of indeterminate mass
- Virtual (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
- Virtual (philosophy), a term used by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda to denote potentiality as being equally real to actuality, but in a different manner
- Virtualization, a computing technique to create representations of computer resources (see also virtual machine)
See also
- List of things described as virtual
- Virtuality (disambiguation)
- Virtua
- Hatsune Miku (virtual songstress)
- Virtua series:
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