English noun: virtual storage | |||
1. | virtual storage (artifact) (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 | ||
Synonyms | virtual memory | ||
Broader (hypernym) | computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage, store | ||
Domain category | computer science, computing | ||