ROTATIONAL LATENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rotational latency mean? 

• ROTATIONAL LATENCY (noun)
  The noun ROTATIONAL LATENCY has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head

  Familiarity information: ROTATIONAL LATENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTATIONAL LATENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

latency; rotational latency

Hypernyms ("rotational latency" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("rotational latency" is a part of...):

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)