| virtual memory n. Memory, often as simulated on a hard disk, that emulates RAM, allowing an application to operate as though the computer has more memory than it actually does. |
virtual memory (vûr ch - l) A memory management system in a computer that temporarily stores inactive parts of the content RAM on a disk, restoring it to RAM when quick access to it is needed. This allows software to operate as though the computer has more RAM than it actually does. |
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| Noun | 1. |  virtual memory - (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addressescomputer memory, computer storage, memory board, store, memory, storage - an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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virtual memory
n (Comput) → virtueller Speicher
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