Virtual
Updated: 04/30/2020 by Computer Hope
Virtual describes an object without a physical presence or not what it appears to be. A good example of how virtual describes something is virtual reality. With virtual reality, you can move around in a virtual world and interact with virtual objects and people in that world.
Tip
Something that is virtual is not physical or cannot by physically touched. However, special gloves and controllers help give you the sense of the object being touched.
What is the opposite of virtual?
Physical or the real-life is the opposite of virtual.
Examples of how "virtual" is used
The following list are examples of words containing "virtual" with links that describe each of the terms.
- Virtual 8086 mode
- Virtual address
- Virtual address extension
- Virtual agent
- Virtual assistant
- Virtualbox
- Virtual Chips
- Virtual circuit
- Virtual channel identifier
- Virtual circuit identifier
- Virtual community
- Virtual computing
- Virtual contact file
- Virtual Control Program Interface
- Virtual desktop
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
- Virtual device
- Virtual device driver
- Virtual digital assistant
- Virtual disc
- Virtual disk
- Virtual disk drive
- Virtual drive
- Virtual folder
- Virtual goods
- Virtual hard disk
- Virtual hard drive
- Virtual honeypot
- Virtual host
- Virtual Image
- Virtualization
- Virtual keyboard
- Virtual local area network
- Virtual machine
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Virtual Machine Monitor
- Virtual memory
- Virtual memory systems
- Virtual money
- Virtual museum
- Virtual Network Computing
- Virtual office
- Virtual office assistant
- Virtual PC
- Virtual PC Windows
- Virtual peripheral
- Virtual Private Cloud
- Virtual private network
- Virtual private server
- Virtual reality
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language
- Virtual real mode
- Virtual router
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Virtual space
- Virtual Storage Access Memory
- Virtual Storage Access Method
- Virtual wallet