Virtual vs. Digital

Difference Between Virtual and Digital
Virtual➦
Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name
the virtual extinction of the buffalo.
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Digital➦
Relating to or resembling a digit, especially a finger.
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Virtual➦
Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.
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Digital➦
Operated or done with the fingers
a digital switch.
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Virtual➦
Existing as or by means of digital media
a virtual classroom.
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Digital➦
Having digits.
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Virtual➦
Relating to or existing in virtual reality
a virtual encounter in a chatroom.
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Digital➦
Expressed in discrete numerical form, especially for use by a computer or other electronic device
digital information.
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Virtual➦
Emulating the function of another system or device.
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Digital➦
Relating to or being a device that can generate, record, process, receive, transmit, or display information that is represented in discrete numerical form.
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Virtual➦
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.
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Digital➦
Relating to or being a service that provides information expressed in discrete numerical form
We subscribe to digital cable.
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Virtual➦
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential.
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Digital➦
Relating to or being a profession or activity that is performed using digital devices
a digital librarian.
digital photography.
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Virtual➦
Nearly, almost. (A relatively recent development in meaning)
The angry peasants were a virtual army as they attacked the castle.
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Digital➦
Using or giving a reading in digits
a digital clock.
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Virtual➦
Simulated in a computer or online.
The virtual world of his computer game allowed character interaction.
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Digital➦
Characterized by widespread use of computers
living in the digital age.
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Virtual➦
Operating by computer or in cyberspace; not physically present.
a virtual assistant
a virtual personal trainer
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Digital➦
A key played with the finger, as on a piano.
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Virtual➦
Capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
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Digital➦
Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
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Virtual➦
(physics) Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
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Digital➦
Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
digital computer
digital clock
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Virtual➦
A virtual member function of a class.
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Digital➦
Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
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Virtual➦
(gambling) A computer simulation of a real-world sport such as horse racing.
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Digital➦
(finance) A digital option.
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Virtual➦
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance.
Every kind that lives,Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed.
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Digital➦
(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.
He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
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Virtual➦
Being in essence or effect, not in fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute.
A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence.
To mask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance.
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Digital➦
(music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
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Virtual➦
being actually such in almost every respect;
a practical failure
the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin
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Digital➦
A finger.
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Virtual➦
being such in essence or effect though not in actual fact;
a virtual dependence on charity
a virtual revolution
virtual reality
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Digital➦
Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
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Digital➦
of or pertaining to digits{3}; expressed in digits{3}, or using digits{3}; as, a digital display; a digital clock.
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Digital➦
performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits, usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous scale; as, a digital computer.
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Digital➦
of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;
digital computer
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Digital➦
displaying numbers rather than scale positions;
digital clock
digital readout
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Digital➦
relating to or performed with the fingers;
digital examination
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