random-access
adjective
ran·dom-ac·cess
ˈran-dəm-ˈak-ˌses 
: permitting access to stored data in any order the user desires
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The research firm foresees the revenue for DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips declining 39.4% in 2023 but expects a rise of 86.8% in 2024 as pricing keeps rebounding.
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Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 July 2023
In the Lisa and most other operating systems, two indexes access a program on floppy disk, using up precious random-access memory and increasing the delay in fetching programs from a disk.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 July 2023
In the Lisa and most other operating systems, two indexes access a program on floppy disk, using up precious random-access memory and increasing the delay in fetching programs from a disk.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
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1953, in the meaning defined above
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random-access
adjective
ran·dom-ac·cess
ˌran-dəm-ˈak-ˌses
: permitting access to stored data in any order the user desires
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