| access time n. Computer Science The average time lag between a request for information stored on a particular component, such as the hard drive or RAM, and its delivery. |
access time
n
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing the time required to retrieve a piece of stored information
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| Noun | 1. |  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; "access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead"computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures seek time - (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track interval, time interval - a definite length of time marked off by two instants 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 |
Translations
access time n (Comput) → tempo di accesso
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