A Virtual Interface or Virtual Network Interface (VIF) is an abstract virtualized representation of a computer network interface that may or may not correspond directly to a physical network interface.
There is some variation in usage of the term, with different groups using it to mean slightly different things. Usually context will clarify.
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“Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune—what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.”
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