virtual machine

English

Noun

virtual machine (plural virtual machines)

(computing) A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.
(computing) A computer system that is implemented in software rather than hardware and that runs bytecode.

Abbreviations

VM

Hypernyms

machine

Hyponyms

process virtual machine
system virtual machine

Translations

Translations

Chinese:
Mandarin: 虛擬機 (zh), 虚拟机 (zh) (xūnǐjī)
Finnish: virtuaalikone (fi)
German: virtuell maskin c
Indonesian: komputer virtual, mesin virtual

Polish: komputer wirtualny m, maszyna wirtualna f
Serbo-Croatian: virtualno računalo n, virtualni stroj m
Swedish: virtuelle Maschine f
Turkish: sanal makine

References

virtual machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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