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Meaning of "virtual memory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIRTUAL MEMORY

virtual memory  [ˈvɜːtʃʊəl ˈmɛmərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIRTUAL MEMORY

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Virtual memory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIRTUAL MEMORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Virtual memory

In computing, virtual memory is a memory management technique that is implemented using both hardware and software. It maps memory addresses used by a program, called virtual addresses, into physical addresses in computer memory. Main storage as seen by a process or task appears as a contiguous address space or collection of contiguous segments. The operating system manages virtual address spaces and the assignment of real memory to virtual memory. Address translation hardware in the CPU, often referred to as a memory management unit or MMU, automatically translates virtual addresses to physical addresses. Software within the operating system may extend these capabilities to provide a virtual address space that can exceed the capacity of real memory and thus reference more memory than is physically present in the computer. The primary benefits of virtual memory include freeing applications from having to manage a shared memory space, increased security due to memory isolation, and being able to conceptually use more memory than might be physically available, using the technique of paging.

Definition of virtual memory in the English dictionary

The definition of virtual memory in the dictionary is a way of increasing the available memory your computer has by enlarging the places in memory where data can be stored. Data stored in virtual memory must be mapped back to real memory in order to be used.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VIRTUAL MEMORY


armory
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armoury
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costumery
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creamery
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customary
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emery
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gendarmerie
ʒɒnˈdɑːmərɪ
infirmary
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mammary
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memory
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Montgomery
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mummery
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palmary
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perfumery
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primary
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rosemary
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shimmery
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stemmery
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summary
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIRTUAL MEMORY

virtu
virtual
virtual human
virtual image
virtual reality
virtual storage
virtualise
virtualism
virtualist
virtuality
virtualize
virtually
virtue
virtueless
virtues
virtuosa
virtuose
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virtuosic
virtuosity

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIRTUAL MEMORY

bubble memory
buffer memory
cache memory
collective memory
commit to memory
episodic memory
erasable programmable read only memory
extended memory
long-term memory
main memory
nonvolatile memory
photographic memory
random access memory
read only memory
read-write memory
screen memory
selective memory
semantic memory
short-term memory
video memory
working memory

Synonyms and antonyms of virtual memory in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «virtual memory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIRTUAL MEMORY

Find out the translation of virtual memory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of virtual memory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «virtual memory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚拟内存
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

memoria virtual
570 millions of speakers

English

virtual memory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आभासी स्मृति
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الذاكرة الظاهرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

виртуальной памяти
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

memória virtual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভার্চুয়াল মেমরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mémoire virtuelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memori maya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

virtueller Speicher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仮想メモリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가상 메모리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Memori virtual
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ nhớ ảo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெய்நிகர் நினைவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्च्युअल मेमरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sanal bellek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

memoria virtuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pamięci wirtualnej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

віртуальної пам´яті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

memorie virtuală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εικονική μνήμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

virtuele geheue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

virtuellt minne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

virtuelt minne
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about virtual memory

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QUOTES WITH «VIRTUAL MEMORY»

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Ken Thompson
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRTUAL MEMORY»

Discover the use of virtual memory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to virtual memory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager
This is an expert guide to the 2.6 Linux Kernel's most important component: the Virtual Memory Manager.
Mel Gorman, 2004
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Distributed Shared Memory: Concepts and Systems
Abstract A shared virtual memory system can provide a virtual address space shared among all processors in a loosely-coupled multiprocessor. This paper shows that such a memory can solve many problems in message passing systems on ...
Jelica Protic, Milo Tomasevic, Veljko Milutinović, 1998
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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 14 - ...
"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities.
Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent, 1980
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Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
Virtual memory is one technique for managing the resource of physical memory, including the caches, main memory, and the disk subsystem. It was originally invented to provide to software the illusion of a very large amount of main memory ...
Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, David Wang, 2010
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Computer Fundamentals: Architecture and Organization
In Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III the second-level cache memory and its controller are within the processor itself. 6.3 REAL (OR PHYSICAL) AND VIRTUAL MEMORY The real or physical memory is the actual main memory provided ...
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Computer Architecture and Implementation
4.2 PAGED VIRTUAL MEMORY Paged virtual memory provides the solution to the first desideratum of a very large memory's being available to the processor. Because of the importance of this desideratum, the relationship between virtual and ...
Harvey G. Cragon, 2000
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System Software
3.9 VIRTUAL MEMORY This section discusses about the virtual memory concepts and also mechanisms to implement the same. Let us see a simple analogy. I generally take Rs.100/- for daily expenses from my wife. My bank balance is Rs.1 ...
M. Joseph, 2007
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Memory Systems and Pipelined Processors
The first description of a virtual memory applied to the Atlas computer [KILB62], a design motivated by the desire for a large linear address space that hid the memory management tasks from the programmer. Another early experimental paged ...
Harvey G. Cragon, 1996
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture
This larger 2-GB memory is called virtual memory, and the smaller 128-MB main memory is called physical memory. We will use the term physical memory to refer to main memory throughout this section. Programs can access data anywhere ...
David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris, 2013
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Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
A memory manager that virtualizes memory is called a virtual memory manager. The design we work out in this section replaces the domain manager but incorporates the main features of domains: controlled sharing and permissions.
Jerome H. Saltzer, M. Frans Kaashoek, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRTUAL MEMORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term virtual memory is used in the context of the following news items.
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You can increase your virtual memory First of all, what is virtual …
To avoid the situation where it would be necessary for Windows to unload one program to load another, virtual memory was invented. Virtual memory is the ... «YourWestValley.com, Jul 15»
2
Investigating the GTX 970: Does Nvidia's GPU have a memory
Late last week, we covered claims that the GTX 970 had a major memory flaw that didn't affect .... Nvidia put it in a different virtual memory pool to do this. «ExtremeTech, Jan 15»
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If Windows virtual memory is too low, you can increase it, but there …
Dspenc40229's PC occasionally complains that it's running low on virtual memory. “How do I get more?” Virtual memory, also known as the swap file, uses part ... «PCWorld, Nov 14»
4
Unified Memory in CUDA 6: A Brief Overview
An explanation of unified memory that does not delve into the zero-copy and unified virtual memory topics but instead concentrates exclusively on its key ... «Dr. Dobb's, Sep 14»
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NVIDIA Next Generation Pascal GPU To Feature 3D Stacked …
The Pascal GPU would also introduce NVLINK which is the next generation Unified Virtual Memory link with Gen 2.0 Cache coherency features and 5 – 12 times ... «WCCFtech, Mar 14»
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Lifelogging: Take a stroll down a virtual memory lane
LIFELOGGING is moving beyond just counting how many steps you take. Soon it will encompass almost everything we do, generating vast quantities of data in ... «New Scientist, Jan 14»
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How to maximize the capacity of your SSD
With most laptops and Ultrabooks offering between 4GB and 8GB of RAM, you may want to consider disabling your virtual memory entirely if you don't play ... «PCWorld, Sep 13»
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Putting Flash On The Memory Bus
With the virtual memory driver, the flash appears to the processor to be memory, but data is paged in and out of the flash from DRAM in 4K pages. The OS knows ... «NetworkComputing.com, Jul 13»
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Memory compression brings RAM Doubler to OS X Mavericks
Overcoming RAM restrictions required you either purchase more RAM, or enable and expand virtual memory usage in the system's control panel to make use of ... «CNET, Jun 13»
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AMD's “heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access” coming this year in …
Modern operating systems and software all use virtual memory. Each process has its own private set of addresses. Whenever an address is accessed, the CPU ... «Ars Technica, Apr 13»

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