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ACCESS TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive
Example:
access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("access time" is a kind of...):
interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)
Meronyms (parts of "access time"):
seek time ((computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track)
latency; rotational latency ((computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head)
command overhead; command processing overhead; command processing overhead time; overhead ((computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
