access time

Definition of Access Time in English :

1. access time

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive

Example Sentences:
'access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Access Time

noun

computing

the time required to retrieve a piece of stored information

the length of time required by a computer to retrieve or store data

n.

The time required for a computer program or device to locate and retrieve, or to write and store, a piece of data.