access time
NOUN
/æksɛs_taɪm/
11 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH A
access time is a valid 11-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
A1C3C3E1S1S1T1I1M3E1
1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 =16 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 32TRIPLE WORD → 48
MEANING
What does access time mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive.
“access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead”
BROADER