Glossary — V

vareppolo

banana (language=basa Jawa). Each letter "a" in "basa Jawa" is pronounced "aw" as in "law," and the "w" is pronounced in-between the sounds of English and Deutsch; it's not as strong as the English "v" sound, but touch your lower lip to your upper teeth while saying the English "w" sound, courtesy of [Mary Jo Studenberg of the University of Wisconsin (mjstuden@facstaff.wisc.edu))

 

venenoso

toxic (language=Castellano Chileno); muy venenoso = very toxic

 

virtual

part of the physical-logical-virtual trilogy of indirection that describes the conceptual cybernetic movement from Real Space to Cyberspace, "virtual" indicates something, a part of memory or a meeting, that resembles or acts as an automata form of something else, physical or conceptual. (language=American technical jargon). According to cue/www=http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/v/virtual.html: "Not real. The term virtual is popular among computer scientists and is used in a wide variety of situations. In general, it distinguishes something that is merely conceptual from something that has physical reality. For example, virtual memory refers to an imaginary set of locations, or addresses, where you can store data. It is imaginary in the sense that the memory area is not the same as the real physical memory composed of transistors. The difference is a bit like the difference between an architect's plans for a house and the actual house. A computer scientist might call the plans a virtual house. Another analogy is the difference between the brain and the mind. The mind is a virtual brain. It exists conceptually, but the actual physical matter is the brain. / The opposite of virtual is real, absolute, or physical." Well, I don't agree that the mind is a virtual brain; it's much more than just an imaginary construct of that organ ... aren't we?