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SEEK TIME

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Dictionary entry overview: What does seek time mean?

• SEEK TIME (noun)
The noun SEEK TIME has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track

Familiarity information: SEEK TIME used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SEEK TIME (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("seek time" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seek time"):

track-to-track seek time ((computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to an adjacent data track)

Holonyms ("seek time" is a part of...):

access time ((computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive)

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