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access time

Computing the time required to retrieve a piece of stored information
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access time

[′ak·ses ‚tīm]
(computer science)
The time period required for reading out of or writing into the computer memory.
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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.
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This trend, coupled with physically distributed memory architectures, is leading to very nonuniform memory access times, with latencies ranging from a couple of processor cycles for data in cache to hundreds of thousands of cycles.
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