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noun
The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computer-hardware, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: time interval, interval
Narrower terms: track-to-track seek time
History
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