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Virtual vs Defacto - What's the difference?

virtual | defacto |

As nouns the difference between virtual and defacto

is that virtual is in C++, a virtual member function of a class while defacto is alternative form of lang=en.

As an adjective virtual

is in effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated.

virtual

Alternative forms

* vertual (obsolete) * vertuall (qualifier) * virtuall (obsolete)

Adjective

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  • In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated.
  • In fact a defeat on the battlefield, Tet was a virtual victory for the North, owing to its effect on public opinion.
    Virtual addressing allows applications to believe that there is much more physical memory than actually exists.
  • * Fleming
  • A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence.
  • * De Quincey
  • to mask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance
  • Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance.
  • * Milton
  • Every kind that lives, / Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed.
  • Nearly, almost. (A relatively recent corruption of meaning, attributed to misuse in advertising and media. )
  • The angry peasants were a virtual army as they attacked the castle.
  • * 2012 , Chelsea 6-0 Wolves [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19632463]
  • The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.
  • Simulated in a computer or online.
  • The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.
  • Operating by computer or in cyberspace; not physically present.
  • a virtual''' assistant; a '''virtual personal trainer
  • (computing, object-oriented programming, of a class member) Capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
  • (physics) Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
  • Synonyms

    * de facto

    Antonyms

    * de jure * legal * real

    Derived terms

    * virtual reality * virtually

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) In C++, a virtual member function of a class.
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    defacto

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1992 , University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin , Issue 31, unidentified page,
  • Homicide, assault, rape, and suicide occur as a result of Aboriginal men?s fear of loss of a valued relationship and jealousy over their wives or defactos .
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  • * 2001 , Jude McCulloch, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia , page 51,
  • The police rolehas tended to exclude a whole class of people — wives, defactos', girlfriends and daughters, or past wives, ' defactos and girlfriends from the protection of the criminal law, too often with tragic consequences.
  • * 2007 , Jo Barnes, 4: Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973—1992: A research note'', Diane Kholos Wysocki, ''Readings in Social Research Methods , page 36,
  • Of the 250 victims in this sample, 50.4 percent were or had been in an intimate relationship with the offender (intimates are defined as present and past spouses, defactos and lovers).
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