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ALL meanings of virtual storage

vir·tu·al stor·age
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  • noun virtual storage a 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. 1
  • uncountable noun virtual storage Virtual storage is the same as virtual memory. 0
  • noun virtual storage 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, such as a disk, into the smaller core memory as they are required 0
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