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Definition of access time
: the lag between the time stored information is requested (as from a computer) and the time it is delivered
Although other types of nonvolatile memory are increasingly available … such storage options typically cost more per bit and hold less data than disks do or have slow access time.— P. Weiss
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The first known use of access time was in 1948
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