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virtualization

noun

Etymology

From virtual + -ization.

  1. derived from virtuel
  2. borrowed from virtuel
  3. derived from *wiHrós✻ — “man”
  4. derived from virtūs — “goodness, virtue; manliness, virility”
  5. derived from virtuālis — “of or pertaining to potency or power; having power to produce an effect, potent; morally virtuous”
  6. derived from vertüal
  7. inherited from vertual
  8. suffixed as virtualization — “virtual + ization”

Definitions

  1. The act of virtualizing.

  2. Creating a virtual version of common computing hardware at the same abstraction level.

    • storage virtualization
    • CPU virtualization

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for virtualization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA