Meaning of access time | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   countable, uncountable
2. An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.”

“It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]”

CEFR level