MEANING
To represent computing resources as virtual systems rather than expose their physical hardware directly.
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Words that belong together
- virtualize a server
- virtualized environment
On the page
The engineers virtualized the aging control computer on new hardware.
Each research group used a virtualized environment separated from the others.
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Word forms
- Base
- virtualize
- Past tense
- virtualized
- Past participle
- virtualized
- Present participle
- virtualizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- virtualize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are virtualizing
- Present perfect
- have/has virtualized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been virtualizing
- Past
- virtualized
- Past continuous
- was/were virtualizing
- Past perfect
- had virtualized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been virtualizing
- Future
- will virtualize
- Future continuous
- will be virtualizing
- Future perfect
- will have virtualized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been virtualizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: virtualize; virtualizes; virtualized; virtualized; virtualizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: virtualizes.
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