Dictionary

access time en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈaksɛsˌtʌɪm/

Etymology

First attested in 1948.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists. 1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science:
2. (countable, uncountable) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
   • It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […] 2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain:

Forms

Deriveds

average access time · disk access time

Translations (4)

ms waktu capaian (time interval between requesting and completing) · eo atingotempo (time interval between requesting and completing) · id waktu akses (time interval between requesting and completing) · fi saantiaika (time interval between requesting and completing)