NOUN | artifact | virtual memory, virtual storage | (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory |
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Meaning | (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. | |
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Synonym | virtual storage | |
Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
Broader | memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board | An electronic memory device |
Spanish | memoria virtual | |
Catalan | memòria virtual |
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