access time

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

access time
    n 1: (computer science) the interval between the time data is
         requested by the system and the time the data is provided
         by the drive; "access time is the sum of seek time and
         rotational latency and command processing overhead"

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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.

   (1997-06-14)

[email protected]