access time

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaksɛsˌtʌɪm/
  • Audio (Canada):(file)

Noun

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access time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)

  1. (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.
  2. (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 []

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