Virtual

Virtual may refer to:

  • Virtual reality (virtuality), computer programs with an interface that gives the user the impression that they are physically inside a simulated space
  • 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
  • Virtual aperture, a res nulius image as the objective element(s) produced by the eyepiece, subjectively nothing in the presence of light rays emitting pass it.
  • Virtual, a former Blizzard Entertainment streamcaster, famous for interviewing Ng Wai Chung during the Blitzchung Controversy.

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