virtual memory

Noun
  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 (synset 104545214)
    referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
    is a type of: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage, store - an electronic memory device
    same as: virtual storage

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