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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 thanhardware and that runsbytecode .
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