All 7 Uses of
virtual
in
Childhood's End
- Ignorance, disease, poverty and fear had virtually ceased to exist.
Chpt 6 *virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
- Production had become largely automatic: the robot factories poured forth consumer goods in such unending streams that all the ordinary necessities of life were virtually free.†
Chpt 6
- It had been virtually shattered by two inventions, which were, ironically enough, of purely human origin and owed nothing to the Overlords.†
Chpt 6
- The end of strife and conflicts of all kinds had also meant the virtual end of creative art.†
Chpt 6
- The library ran the whole width of the house, but was virtually divided into half a dozen small rooms by the great bookcases extending across it.†
Chpt 7
- The Overlords had imposed few positive bans on any form of human activity (the conduct of war was perhaps the major exception), but research into space flight had virtually ceased.†
Chpt 8
- It was virtually unpossible, he decided, for one person to take control without the remainder of the circle knowing it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense