ALL meanings of sequential access
se·quen·tial ac·cess
S s - adjective sequential access of or relating to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file. 1
- adjective sequential access of or relating to file processing in which records are organized based on the sequence of keys contained in each record, and in which accessing a record necessitates first accessing all of the preceding records. 1
- noun sequential access a method of reaching and reading data from a computer file by reading through the file from the beginning 0