RANDOM ACCESS
\ɹˈandəm ˈaksɛs], \ɹˈandəm ˈaksɛs], \ɹ_ˈa_n_d_ə_m ˈa_k_s_ɛ_s]\
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It is known as direct access. The way in which a computer will access items that are stored in its memory banks. When looking for an item it will go directly to it and not start looking from it the first item listed until it finds it.
By Henry Campbell Black
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).