virtual address

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

virtual address
logical address

   1. <architecture> A memory location accessed by an
   {application program} in a system with {virtual memory} such
   that intervening hardware and/or software maps the virtual
   address to real ({physical}) memory.  During the course of
   execution of an application, the same virtual address may be
   mapped to many different {physical addresses} as data and
   programs are {paged out} and {paged in} to other locations.

   2. In {IBM}'s {VM} {operating system}, {Virtual Device
   Location}.

   (2001-01-02)