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VIRTUAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
Example:
virtual reality
Classified under:
Similar:
essential (basic and fundamental)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being actually such in almost every respect
Example:
the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin
Synonyms:
practical; virtual
Classified under:
Similar:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
Context examples:
For future therapies that preserve optic nerve axons, Huberman envisions the development of filters for virtual reality video games, television programs, or eyeglasses designed to deliver regeneration-inducing visual stimulation.
(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)
The virtual bird simulation was unique in allowing the researchers to identify the impact of a daily physiological stressor in the desert — heat — as birds leave the shade to forage for food or find mates.
(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)
The common depiction of these animals in cartoons and movies and as toys has led to what the authors call virtual populations — people believe the animals are not at risk of extinction in the wild because they appear to be everywhere.
(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)
The twelfth house is also the place that is strongly associated with your imagination, and this month you will be a virtual idea factory.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Virtual reality in Medical Imaging is the technique of combining 3D DICOM image data sets produced by medical imaging equipment with extremely high-powered computer capabilities.
(Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, NCI Thesaurus)
The latest findings, part of the UC Berkeley Grinnell Resurvey Project, come from comparing levels of species declines with computer simulations of how virtual birds must deal with heat on an average hot day in Death Valley, which can be in the 30s Celsius — 90s Fahrenheit — with low humidity.
(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)
On that day, Mars and Neptune will be beautifully aspected, and you’ll become a virtual idea factory on your job.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This aspect will pave the way for what I see next (the new moon on November 26) and offers you proof that you will be a virtual money magnet at month’s end.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
