"virtual machine" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (computing) A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.
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  2. (computing) A computer system that is implemented in software rather than hardware and that runs bytecode.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: VM Hypernyms: machine Hyponyms: process virtual machine, system virtual machine Translations (Translations): 虛擬機 /虚拟机 (xūnǐjī) (Chinese Mandarin), virtuaalikone (Finnish), machine virtuelle [feminine] (French), máquina virtual [feminine] (Galician), virtuelle Maschine [feminine] (German), εικονική μηχανή (eikonikí michaní) [feminine] (Greek), komputer virtual (Indonesian), mesin virtual (Indonesian), 仮想マシン (kasō mashin) (alt: かそうマシン) (Japanese), 仮想機械 (kasō mashin) (alt: かそうきかい) (Japanese), 가상 머신 (gasang meosin) (Korean), virtualioji mašina [feminine] (Lithuanian), виртуелка (virtuelka) [feminine] (Macedonian), komputer wirtualny [masculine] (Polish), maszyna wirtualna [feminine] (Polish), máquina virtual [feminine] (Portuguese), virtualno računalo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), virtualni stroj [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), máquina virtual [feminine] (Spanish), virtuell maskin [common-gender] (Swedish), sanal makine (Turkish), máy ảo (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 54 46

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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "máquina virtual"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "virtualno računalo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "virtualni stroj"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "máquina virtual"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "virtuell maskin"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sanal makine"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "máy ảo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "virtual machine"
}

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