Virtual Machine

Japanese: 仮想計算機 - かそうけいさんき
Virtual Machine

...A system that consists of a high-speed main memory with limited capacity and a low-speed auxiliary memory with large capacity, and that virtualizes the memory so that it appears to be composed only of a high-speed main memory with almost no capacity limit, is called virtual memory. A computer system that is virtualized as a whole is called a virtual machine or virtual computer. Many modern computers are systems that can be used simultaneously by multiple users with different purposes.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "virtual computer" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…限られた容量の高速な主記憶装置と大容量の低速の補助記憶装置から構成されて,記憶装置を見かけ上,容量の制限のほとんどない高速の主記憶装置のみから構成されているように仮想化したものを仮想記憶virtual memoryという。コンピューターシステム全体を仮想化したものが仮想機械あるいは仮想計算機と呼ばれる。現在のコンピューターは複数の目的を異にしている利用者が同時に利用できるようになっているシステムが多い。…

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