access time

noun

Definition of access time

: the lag between the time stored information is requested (as from a computer) and the time it is delivered Although other types of nonvolatile memory are increasingly available … such storage options typically cost more per bit and hold less data than disks do or have slow access time.— P. Weiss

First Known Use of access time

1948, in the meaning defined above

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access time

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English Language Learners Definition of access time

technical : the time required to get stored information from a computer memory