virtual

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Cloud Computing

Is a process by which multiple operating systems (servers) run on a single piece of hardware or physical server

BlueLock — Vocabulary of the Cloud

Providing the appearance of something without the reality, as in: virtual memory is not real memory. (See also "memory".) The opposite of "virtual" is "transparent", which means providing the reality of something without the appearance, as in: Perl handles the variable-length UTF-8 character encoding transparently.

Perl — Perl Glossary