Virtual

virtual

adjective

1. Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name.
2. Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.
3. Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network.
4. In philosophy: Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it.