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countable and uncountable, plural access times
(computing) The time interval between the issuing of a request to read data from or write data to a storage device and the completion of this action. quotations examples
Random access files have a fast access time, but they cannot easily produce sequential lists.
1986, Roger R Flynn, An Introduction to Information Science
(computing) An item of metadata indicating when a file was last accessed. quotations examples
It is difficult to monitor both the access time and the change time, because monitoring the file attributes resets the access time […]
2005, Brian Wotring, Bruce Potter, Marcus J Ranum, Rainer Wichmann, Host Integrity Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain