Technical Terms A

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January 25
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Access – The process of retrieving data or reading and writing data on a storage device.

Access Time – The measurement of time it takes a device to locate and retrieve data or information.

Active Partition – The single partition of many that houses the booting Operating System on typical Microsoft Windows configured computers.

Active Termination – To promote increased reliability and data integrity voltage regulators push a constant current through the bus ensuring data signals do not drop to levels too low to access.

Actuator – A mechanical device that allows positioning.

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