Virtual

…a “virtual x,” where x stands for a common noun, means something which is not an x, but which has, for whatever purpose may be...

“Virtual,” followed by any common noun, say ‘N,’ makes an appellative phrase which denotes anything which, while it is not an ‘N,’ has, nevertheless, the...

Over the past five centuries the word virtuality (vertualyte, virtualitas) has been used to denote a power, a potentiality, and an embodiment or essence as a certain...

(1) A virtual X (where X is a common noun) is something, not an X, which has the efficiency (virtus) of an X.

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