random access
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrandomandaccess
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random
adjective
uk/ˈræn.dəm/us/ˈræn.dəm/
happening, done, or chosen by chance rather than according to ...
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access
noun[U]
uk/ˈæk.ses/us/ˈæk.ses/
the method or possibility of getting near to a place ...
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(Definition ofrandomandaccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The videotaped recording of each experiment was copied onto an optical disk forrandomaccessand frame-grabbing by a personal computer.
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The interfaces in traditional acoustic musical instruments are generally of parallelrandomaccessdesign.
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The digitized values of the pixel charge are stored in arandomaccessmemory or magnetic disk for further analysis.
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During garbage collection, these pointers must be updated, which again means that efficientrandomaccessis needed.
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Various strategies have been developed to avoid inefficient operations, such asrandomaccessto row entries and entry updates to immutable functional arrays.
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Assuming row-by-row storage, for the forward substitutions, a list data structure is adequate because norandomaccessto list entries is necessary.
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Handling a method such as edge-tracking really requires unit timerandomaccessto the data, which implies some kind of array representation.
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Therandomaccess, editing and labelling features facilitated the recording and presentation of the 108 sound ideas without the need for radical re-editing at a later stage.
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After freezing, when entity identifiers are numbered in contiguous allocations with respect to attribute assignments, arrays are used to store these values providing fastrandomaccessfor computations.
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He must be having trouble with hisrandomaccessmemory today.
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Therefore, in up-dating the matter it is a question only of obtaining information, whether byrandomaccessor otherwise.
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This latter facility leads to the concept of "data bank"or"randomaccess" systems.
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