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Definitions of random access:

• Able to directly access any portion of data, without having to accept data in sequence.
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• A system can access data within particular time, regardless of the location of the data. This is one of the characteristics of disk type of recording media. As far as MO disk is concerned, the access time is around second.
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• The ability to jump to a point on a storage medium.
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• Storage systems where data may be stored and accessed in any order, independent of the ordinal position of the data when it was originally recorded. This is the opposite of linear(3) access, or linear recording media such as magnetic tape which necessarily preserves the sequential relation of the data as it is recorded, and depends on this sequential relation for accurate playback. See non-linear recording.
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• Able to read any location directly; without having to read sequentially to the location.
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• The process of selecting information in a arbitrary order, not based on the physical order or sequence of its storage.
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• Describes the ability of a storage device to go directly to the required memory address without having to read from the beginning every time data is requested. There is nothing random or haphazard about random access; a more precise term is direct access. In a random-access device, the information can be read directly by accessing the appropriate memory address. ...
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• MEMORY When ya cain't member whut ya paid for yer new rifle when your wife asks. [Rural]
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• A common term for direct access to data; disk is a random access storage medium; tape is a sequential access medium.
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• An access method in which records can be read from, written to, or removed from a file in any order. See also sequential access.
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• Also known as "direct access" in Fortran, arbitrary offsets into files can be used to go directly to specific entries in a file. Unformatted IO may be either sequential or random.
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• This is a way of accessing computer data. In a random access environment any part of a random access file can be accessed with little or no delay. Random access means fast access to data. Hard disks and floppy disks are used for random access.
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• Access of data in arbitrary order, with constant access time.
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• The process of jumping to an arbitrary point on a CD or DVD in order to read and decode data there. Unlike tape CDs and DVDs offer fast random access to any part of the data on the disc.
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• The ability to move to a video point instantly, without having to shuttle.
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• In computer science, random access is the ability to access a random element of a group in equal time. The opposite is sequential access, where a remote element takes longer time to access. A typical illustration of this distinction is the ancient scroll (sequential) and the book where any random page can be flipped open immediately. A more modern example is computer storage on magnetic tape on spools (sequential) and hard disks (random access). ...
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