random access
random access 1. A type of memory access in which storage locations can be accessed in any order. The term is applied primarily to the
main memory of a processor where the
access time to any word or byte is fixed, i.e. the access time to any item of information is independent of the address of that item and of the address of any previous item referred to. Main memory, in modern systems, is fabricated from semiconductor
RAM or
ROM, and the access time is typically of the order of 10–100 nanoseconds.
The term random-access memory has also been used to describe memory implemented on
magnetic disk to distinguish it from serially accessed devices such as magnetic tape.
See also
RAM disk.
2. A method of access to a
file (especially a data file): a file is said to be randomly accessed if the sequence of transactions submitted to it does not match any sequence in which records may be organized.
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A way of seeing.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 3/6/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...than-life figures of patron saints. On the left St. Ivo of Chartres, the great 11th-century canon...perfected alter ego of Bela. St. Ivo represents balanced judgment...union, purity, grace. The saints stand, with their prayer books...
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Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Watkins' essay on Lanfranc as a teacher at Saint-Etienne, Caen, actually documents his...observing that we know nothing for sure on where Ivo of Chartres gained his legal education, then pinpoints Ivo's key traits as a canonist. The freshest...
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Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200.(Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, vol. 8)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Watkins' essay on Lanfranc as a teacher at Saint-Etienne, Caen, actually documents his...observing that we know nothing for sure on where Ivo of Chartres gained his legal education, then pinpoints Ivo's key traits as a canonist. The freshest...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/22/1999; 518 words
; ...is the Feast Day of St Aigulf of Ayoul or Bourges, Saints Castus and Aemilius, St Helen of Caernarvon, St Humility...Vienne, St Euphrosyne of Polotsk, St Guibert, St Ivo of Chartres, St John Baptist dei Rossi, St Leontius of Rostov...
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Saint Ivo of Chartres
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Ivo of Chartres , c.1040-c.1116, French churchman, bishop of Chartres (after 1090). He was fearlessly outspoken...In the prologue to these collections Ivo attempted to establish a hierarchy for...
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