Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seek time

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables
seek -time
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

seek times (plural)

Phrases

average seek time full stroke seek time maximum seek time minimum seek time track-to-track seek time

Questions

What does seek time mean?
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.

How to pronounce seek time

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