read operation

collocation in English

meaningsofreadandoperation

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read
noun[S]
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/riːd/us
/riːd/
the act of ...
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operation
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the fact of operating or ...
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(Definition ofreadandoperationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofread operation

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Evidently, it is not areadoperation.
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Anticipatory scheduling overcomes deceptive idleness by pausing for a short time (a few milliseconds) after areadoperationin "anticipation" of another close-by read requests.
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This is because the underlying data is not changed by thereadoperation, so the same value is always read.
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Examples of such operations are requesting areadoperation, reading, writing, aborting, committing, requesting lock, locking, etc.
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Because some computer configurations are much faster at reading data than at writing it, updating access times after everyreadoperationcan be very expensive.
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In that case fetching one 16 bit value requires a single memoryreadoperation, a single transfer over a data bus.
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Thereadoperationcan return an arbitrary number.
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Similarly, areadoperationis causally ordered after the earlier write on the same variable that stored the data retrieved by the read.
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In other words, the result of anyreadoperationis consistent with a read on the original copy of an object except for a (short) bounded interval after a modification.
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An expansion feature allowed more alphanumeric columns but certainly not over 50, as only ten words (five characters per word) were stored on the drum by a cardreadoperation.
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This means that thereadoperationdestroys the memory cell state, and has to be followed by a corresponding write operation, in order to write the bit back.
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The sequential consistency is weaker than strict consistency, which requires areadoperationfrom a location to return the value of the last write operation to that location.
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Further developments allowed faster read speeds by offering synchronous burst mode and asynchronous page mode read operations.
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Read queues are given a higher priority, because processes usually block on read operations.
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Read operations in the piggyback are identical to the permanent magnet version.
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Error messages produced during disk read operations are unusually simple, to the point where it is difficult to know what the exact problem is.
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Read operations typically don't check every redundant copy prior to answering, potentially missing the preceding write operation.
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Decreasing this gives more bandwidth to writes (relatively speaking) at the expense of read operations.
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