access time
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access time
WordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive“access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead”Synonyms: access time
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
access time
<hardware, storage> The average time interval between a storage peripheral (usually a disk drive or semiconductor memory) receiving a request to read or write a certain location and returning the value read or completing the write.
(1997-06-14)