ac•cess time
We found 3 definitions of access time from 2 different sources.
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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" | ||
time interval, interval a definite length of time marked off by two instants | ||
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 | ||
rotational latency, 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 |