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random access

 
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–noun
1. the capacity of a videodisc or compact disc player that allows the user to select and replay any portion without starting at the beginning.
2. availability, as of a service or facility, whenever needed or desired: an executive's need for random access to legal experts.
Origin:
1950–55

ran⋅dom-ac⋅cess

  [ran-duhm-ak-ses]
–adjective Computers.
direct-access.

di⋅rect-ac⋅cess

  [di-rekt-ak-ses, -ak-, dahy-]
–adjective Computers.
1. pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
2. pertaining to the method of organization and access used for a data structure in which records are located by their keys, without reference to other records that may have been previously accessed.
Also called random-access.
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Main Entry:  random access
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See direct access
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