Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
access time
noun
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▪ A typical fee is $ 20 a month for 20 or more hours of access time, but rates and plans vary.
▪ In order to do this with the minimum access time, random access files are necessary.
▪ Normally, some records are accessed more frequently than others, and this tendency can be used to decrease average access time.
▪ The 40 megabyte hard disk has an average access time of 23.9 milliseconds.
▪ The tape is said to run in a continuous loop, a method of speeding up access time to data.
▪ This will mean an increase in the average access time of 0.0014R.
Wiktionary
access time
n. 1 (context computing English) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action. 2 (context computing English) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
WordNet
access time
n. (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"
Wikipedia
Access time
Access time is the time delay or latency between a request to an electronic system, and the access being completed or the requested data returned
- In a telecommunications system, access time is the delay between the start of an access attempt and successful access. Access time values are measured only on access attempts that result in successful access.
- In a computer, it is the time interval between the instant at which an instruction control unit initiates a call for data or a request to store data, and the instant at which delivery of the data is completed or the storage is started.