access time
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access time
n. Computer Science
The average time lag between a request for information stored on a particular component, such as the hard drive or RAM, and its delivery.
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access time
1. time taken by a computer or automated typewriter to locate data or an instruction word in its memory (storage) and transfer it.
2. time taken to transfer information from a computer or automated typewriter to the location in that device where it will be stored.
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- General Technology - access time: interval required to retrieve information from memory or a disk
- Memory and Data Storage - access time: time required for a device, as a hard drive, to find requested data
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Access time
For access time in hard disk drives, see Disk drive performance characteristics. For access time in Unix file statistics, see stat (Unix).
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.
See also
- Memory latency
- Mechanical latency
- Rotational latency
- Seek time
- Comparison of latency and bandwidth
- Throughput
- Lead time
- process switching latency
- thread switching latency
This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).
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