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virtual machine

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A software program that emulates a hardware system.

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  • noun computing A software emulation of a computer that runs in an isolated partition of a real computer.
  • noun computing A computer system that is implemented in software rather than hardware and that runs bytecode.

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