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paravirtual

paravirtual adjective: approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization).

Adjective

paravirtual (not comparable)

  1. approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization)
    • Compared to the best-known paravirtualization interfaces, our paravirtual interface supports up to 2x higher throughput, and is closer in performance to device passthrough.2015, Piyus Kedia, Sorav Bansal, “A Software-only Mechanism for Device Passthrough and Sharing”, in arXiv

Origin of paravirtual

From para- + virtual.

Questions about paravirtual

What does paravirtual mean?
Paravirtual means approximately virtual (in terms of paravirtualization).
What part of speech is paravirtual?
Paravirtual is an adjective.

Words near paravirtual in the dictionary

  1. paraveterinarians
  2. paravets
  3. paravian
  4. paravians
  5. paravinogradovite
  6. paravirtual
  7. paravirtualisation
  8. paravirtualisations
  9. paravirtualization
  10. paravirtualizations
  11. paravirtualize

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