virtual memory

1. 1.

   (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

   Synonymsvirtual storage

   Broadermemory

   computer science

Questions about virtual memory

What does virtual memory mean?

virtual memory means "(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".

What is another word for virtual memory?

Close synonyms include virtual storage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is virtual memory a common word?

virtual memory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.