All 5 Uses of
virtual
in
The Remains of the Day
- Most conspicuously, in virtually the central spot of the otherwise empty and highly polished floor, lay the dustpan Miss Kenton had alluded to.†
Chpt 2m - *virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
- I've thought about virtually nothing else for the past month.†
Chpt 2m -
- But on that first night, Lord Halifax had arrived in a mood of great wariness; virtually his first words on being shown in were: "Really, Darlington, I don't know what you've put me up to here.†
Chpt 3m -
- Herr Ribbentrop's been able virtually to bypass our foreign office altogether.†
Chpt 4a -
- Really, Mrs Benn, afterwards, well, his lordship was virtually an invalid.†
Chpt 6e -
Definitions:
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(1)
(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense
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(2)
(virtual as in: computer's virtual world) something simulated by a computer