access time
English
editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1948.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaccess time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)
- (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.
- 1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science:
- Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.
- (computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
- 2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain:
- It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittime interval between requesting and completing
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