MEMORY ACCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memory access mean? 

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

1. (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORY ACCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

access; memory access

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)