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se•quen•tial-ac•cess
(si kwen′shəl ak′ses),USA pronunciation adj. [Computers.]
- Computingof or pertaining to a storage medium, as magnetic tape, in which records must be accessed by reading or writing from the beginning of the file.
- Computingof or pertaining to file processing in which records are organized based on the sequence of keys contained in each record, and in which accessing a record necessitates first accessing all of the preceding records. Cf. direct-access, random access.
- 1965–70
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