What is gvfs-fuse-daemon?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

For the first time I noticed that there is a file system on my disk
called gvfs-fuse-daemon. It seems to exist concurrently with
my /dev/sda3 partition in the same disk space. What is this and what is
its significance?
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