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