virtual address

1. architecture A memory location accessed by an

application program in a system with virtual memory such

that intervening hardware and/or software maps the virtual

address to real (physical) memory. During the course of

execution of an application, the same virtual address may be

mapped to many different physical addresses as data and

programs are paged out and paged in to other locations.

2. In IBM's VM operating system, Virtual DeviceLocation.

(2001-01-02)