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SEEK TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("seek time" is a kind of...):
interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)
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 "seek time"):
track-to-track seek time ((computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to an adjacent data track)
Holonyms ("seek time" is a part of...):
access time ((computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive)
