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   virtual

   /ˈvəːtʃʊəl/

   adjective

   • 1. almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition: "the virtual absence of border controls"
   • 2. not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so: "virtual images"
   • ▪ carried out, accessed, or stored by means of a computer, especially over a network: "a virtual library"
   • 3. relating to the points at which rays would meet if produced backwards.
   • 4. relating to or denoting infinitesimal displacements of a point in a system.
   • 5. denoting particles or interactions with extremely short lifetimes and (owing to the uncertainty principle) indefinitely great energies, postulated as intermediates in some processes.

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘possessing certain virtues’): from medieval Latin virtualis, from Latin virtus ‘virtue’, suggested by late Latin virtuosus.

   Derivatives

   • 1. virtuality noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • V

     4

   • I

     1

   • R

     1

   • T

     1

   • U

     1

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

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