virtual address

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virtual address - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  virtual address
  logical address
  
     1. <architecture> A memory location accessed by an
     application program in a system with virtual memory such
     that intervening hardware and/or software maps the virtual
     address to real (physical) memory.  During the course of
     execution of an application, the same virtual address may be
     mapped to many different physical addresses as data and
     programs are paged out and paged in to other locations.
  
     2. In IBM's VM operating system, Virtual Device Location
     .
  
     (2001-01-02)