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 Device Location. (2001-01-02) | ||||
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Virtual address Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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virtual address
virtual address
1. 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 device location
virtual address
1. 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 device location
Virtual address Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Virtual address
In computer terminology a virtual address is an address identifying a virtual (non-physical) entity. The term virtual address is most commonly used for virtual memory or virtual network address.
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