virtual memory

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.

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virtual memory  (vûrch-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.

Thesaurus

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 addresses virtual storage computer 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

Translations

virtual memory

n (Comput) → virtueller Speicher