virtualization

English

Alternative forms

• virtualisation

Etymology

From virtual +‎ -ization.

Noun

virtualization (plural virtualizations)

1. The act of virtualizing.
2. (computing) Creating a virtual version of common computing hardware at the same abstraction level.

   storage virtualization

   CPU virtualization

Hyponyms

• OS-level virtualization

Related terms

• revirtualization

Translations

act of virtualizing

Arabic: بِيئَة اِفْتِرَاضِيَّة f (bīʔa iftirāḍiyya) Chinese: Mandarin: 虛擬化 / 虚拟化 (xūnǐhuà) Danish: virtualisering c German: Virtualisierung f Italian: virtualizzazione f Japanese: 仮想化 (kasō-ka) Norwegian: Bokmål: virtualisering Swedish: virtualisering c Turkish: sanallaştırma

Further reading

• virtualization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia