Virtual

1. a. Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
2. a. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.