access time
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- noun
- Specialized
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tiempo de acceso
- They are commonly used to index database records and thereby speed up access times.
- fast access time
- speed up access time
Examples
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The L2 cache chip is optimized for fast access time.
Academic text (1997) -
The hard drive needs a fast access time—generally less than nineteen milliseconds—to transfer audio data.
Academic text (1997) -
We know that average access time equals hit time times hit rate plus miss time times miss rate.
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So what we wanted to do with Glass was to make this significantly shorter and this access time really matters.
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Now, what is the storage access time of the French C-3400 computer?
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Because of relatively long memory DRAM access times, the individual memory cards are organized into two independent banks.
Academic text (1997) -
As compression block size grows, the average random access time increases.
Academic text (1998) -
This translates to larger memory footprints and somewhat slower access times.
Blog text (6) -
To be more specific, nanoDASD would have to be superior to established technology in at least one important property, such as access time—without significant loss in other parameters.
Academic text (1995) -
A computer's performance often depends on its access time, which should typically be below 20 milliseconds.
How Fast
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'access time' is directly compositional: 'access' (to retrieve or reach resources) + 'time' (duration) yields 'the time needed to access something,' so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. It is a technical label in computing (measuring request-to-delivery latency), but that specialist nuance does not prevent the basic, derivable sense from being understood.
Etymology
Access time comes from a simple image: imagine you ask a librarian for a book and wait while they look for it on the shelf. The delay between your 'request' and when you 'get' the book is the time it takes to access it, so in computers access time means the time between asking for data and getting it.