virtual machine

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

virtual machine (plural virtual machines)

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

Synonyms

• VM

Hypernyms

• machine

Hyponyms

• process virtual machine
• system virtual machine

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虛擬機 / 虚拟机 (zh) (xūnǐjī)

• Finnish: virtuaalikone (fi)
• French: machine virtuelle (fr) f
• Galician: máquina virtual (gl) f
• German: virtuelle Maschine f
• Greek: εικονική μηχανή (el) f (eikonikí michaní)
• Indonesian: komputer virtual, mesin virtual
• Italian: macchina virtuale f
• Japanese: 仮想マシン (かそうマシン, kasō mashin), 仮想機械 (かそうきかい, kasō mashin)
• Korean: 가상 머신 (gasang meosin)
• Lithuanian: virtualioji mašina (lt) f
• Macedonian: виртуелка f (virtuelka)
• Polish: komputer wirtualny m, maszyna wirtualna (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina virtual f
• Serbo-Croatian: virtualno računalo n, virtualni stroj m
• Spanish: máquina virtual f
• Swedish: virtuell maskin c
• Turkish: sanal makine (tr)
• Vietnamese: máy ảo

Further reading

• virtual machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia