virtual address

The location of some item as generated by a compilerA software development tool that takes a high-level program (source code) and translates it into a low-level machine-language program (object code).. In more complex systemsThis is a very generic term for any collection of components that, all together, can do something. Systems can be built from subsystems. Examples are your cell phone; your computer; the radio in your car; anything that seems like a "whole.", it will likely need to be translated to a physical addressThe location of some item in physical memory. by an MMUCircuitry that keeps track of what’s been loaded from a hard drive into DRAM and translates virtual addresses into physical addresses. before it can be used.