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  1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                    

    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.

    [Jargon File]

    (1994-11-30)