computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

access time - (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead"

track-to-track seek time - (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to an adjacent data track

interval, time interval - a definite length of time marked off by two instants