sequential-access

[si-kwen-shuhl-ak-ses]

se·quen·tial-ac·cess

[si-kwen-shuhl-ak-ses]
adjective Computers.
1.
of or pertaining to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
2.
of or pertaining to file processing in which records are organized based on the sequence of keys contained in each record, and in which accessing a record necessitates first accessing all of the preceding records.
Also called serial-access.


Origin:
1965–70
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Sequential-access is always a great word to know.
So is gopher. Does it mean:
a connected group of pages on the World Wide Web maintained by one person or organization, devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics
a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the Internet; any program that implements this protocol
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