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MEMORY ACCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
Synonyms:
access; memory access
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("memory access" is a kind of...):
operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory access"):
disk access (memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored)
