ACCESS TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does access time mean? 

• ACCESS TIME (noun)
  The noun ACCESS TIME has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive

  Familiarity information: ACCESS TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCESS TIME (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead

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)