virtual

[via the technical term virtual memory, prob.: from the term virtual image in optics]

1. Common alternative to {logical}; often used to refer to the artificial objects (like addressable virtual memory larger than physical memory) simulated by a computer system as a convenient way to manage 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. Oppose {real}.

Marcadores: Common, Components, Computer, Hardware, Memory, Optics

postado por mikhail  # 5/20/2009 01:30:00 AM