All 3 Uses
virtual
in
Exit West
(Edited)
- WHEN SAEED AND NADIA finally had coffee together in the cafeteria, which happened the following week, after the very next session of their class, Saeed asked her about her conservative and virtually all-concealing black robe.
p. 16.8 *virtually = almost completely
- But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people...
p. 42.4 *virtual = simulated by a computer
- ...and it occurred to her that she had been stifled in the place of her birth for virtually her entire life, that its time for her had passed, and a new time was here, and, fraught or not, she relished this like the wind in her face on a hot day when she rode her motorcycle and…
p. 159.4virtually = almost
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)