virtual storage

vir′tual stor′age, [Computers.]

Computinga system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage. Also called vir′tual mem′ory. Cf. real storage.

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virtual storage, virtual memory n

a computer system in which the size of the memory is effectively increased by automatically transferring sections of a program from a large capacity backing store into the smaller core memory as they are required

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