access time

<hardware, storage>

The average time interval between a storage peripheral (usually a disk drive or semiconductor memory) receiving a request to read or write a certain location and returning the value read or completing the write.

Last updated: 1997-06-14

Nearby terms:

access permission ♦ access point ♦ access time ♦ ACCLAIM ♦ Accounting File

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