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jargon, architecture (Via the technical term
virtualmemory, probably from the term "virtual image" in optics)
1. Common alternative to
logical; often used to refer to the
than physical memory) created by a computer system to help the
system control access to shared resources.
2. Simulated; performing the functions of something that isn't
really there. An imaginative child's doll may be a virtual
playmate.
Opposite of
real or physical.
(1994-11-30)