memory access

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memory access - (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored informationaccessdisk access - memory access to the computer disk on which information is storedcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresoperation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"