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VIRTUALITY

Definitions: VIRTUALITY

VIRTUALITY

Noun

1. Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.

2. The quality or state of being virtual.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Modern Usage: VIRTUALITY

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ritual Virtuality (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: VIRTUALITY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Acadia 2000: Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture (reference)

  • Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality (reference)

  • New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality (reference)

  • Virtuality Check: Power Relations and Alternative Strategies in the Information Society (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: VIRTUALITY

"VIRTUALITY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VIRTUALITY" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VIRTUALITY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

virtuality

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VIRTUALITY

Language Translations for "VIRTUALITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

bulletin board system (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing), BBS (bulletin board service, bulletin board system, Criminal Law (Wartime Occupation) Decree, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sähköinen ilmoitustaulu (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing). (various references)

   

French

  

virtualité. (various references)

   

German

  

Tatsache (fact). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατ' αξίαν ιδιότητα. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tabellone elettronico (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing, spreadsheet). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ì‹¤ì œ (Actual, Practical, Pragmatic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irtualityvay

   

Romanian

  

virtualitate. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tablón de avisos electrónico (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing), tablón de anuncios (bulletin board, bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, notice board, noticeboard, screen, see also:ubiquitous computing, signboard, tack board), sistema de boletín electrónico (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing), pizarra activa (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

elektronisk anslagstavla (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing), BBS (bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, embodied virtuality, see also:ubiquitous computing). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất thực sự. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VIRTUALITY"

Words rhyming with "VIRTUALITY" (pronounced 'Vir`tu*al"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VIRTUALITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-r-t-t-u-v-y"

-2 letters: titulary, vitality.

-3 letters: ruttily, titular, trivial, utility, virtual.

-4 letters: airily, artily, rattly, ritual, tartly, tautly, trivia, vaulty, yttria.

-5 letters: atilt, laity, litai, lyart, lytta, ratty, rival, riyal, rutty, tarty, trail, trait, trial, truly, ultra, urial, vault, viral, virtu, vital, vitta, yurta.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-r-t-t-u-v-y"
 

+3 letters: attributively, ultravirility.

 

+4 letters: illustratively, viticulturally, vituperatively.

 

+5 letters: authoritatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VIRTUALITY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 49 52 54 55 41 4C 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ..    .-.    -    ..-    .-    .-..    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 0052 0054 0055 0041 004C 0049 0054 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56435254553546435459

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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