virtual path (n)~ A sequence of names that is used to locate a file and that has the same form as a pathname in the file system but is not necessarily the actual sequence of directory names under which the file is located. The part of a URL that follows the server name is a virtual path. For example if the directory c:\bar\sinister\forces\distance on the server miles is shared on the local area network at foo.com under the name \miles\baz and contains the file elena.html that file may be returned by a Web request for http://miles.foo.com/baz/elena.html.