ALL meanings of access time
ac·cess time
A a - countable noun access time Access time is the time that is needed to get information that is stored in a computer. 3
- noun access time the time required to retrieve a piece of stored information 3
- noun access time the length of time required by a computer to retrieve or store data 3
- noun access time the elapsed time from the instant that information is ready for storage to the instant it is stored. 1
- noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- noun access time the elapsed time from the instant that information is called from a storage unit to the instant it is received. 1
- noun access time (computing) 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. 0
- noun access time (computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed. 0