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virtual Adjective 1. having the effect but not the appearance or form of: the investigation has now come to a virtual standstill 2. Computers designed so as to extend the potential of a finite system beyond its immediate limits: virtual memory 3. of or relating to virtual reality [Latin virtus virtue]
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virtual Translationsit's a virtual impossibility → c'est quasiment impossible; to be the virtual leader → eigentlich or praktisch der Führer sein (COMPUT, PHYSICS) → virtuale (= in effect): it's a virtual impossibility → è praticamente impossibile; |
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| The result, except in the case of insanity, must for the most part be arbitrary; and insanity, without any formal or express provision, may be safely pronounced to be a virtual disqualification. He had undergone some strange experiences in his absence; he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia, a spiritual Lucretia in a corporeal Phryne; he had thought of the woman taken and set in the midst as one deserving to be stoned, and of the wife of Uriah being made a queen; and he had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically, by the will rather than by the deed? With these formalities was born the Clan Torn, which grew in a few years to number a thousand men, and which defied a king's army and helped to make Simon de Montfort virtual ruler of England. |
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