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access times

access times is the plural of access time.

Meaning of access time

Noun

access time (countable and uncountable, plural access times)

  1. 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.
    • Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science
  2. An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
    • It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain

Questions about access times

What is access times the plural of?
Access times is the plural of access time.

Words near access times in the dictionary

  1. access roads
  2. access specifier
  3. access specifiers
  4. ACCESS test
  5. access time
  6. access times
  7. access token
  8. access tokens
  9. access violation
  10. access violations
  11. accessability

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