RANDOM ACCESS Definition & Meaning

random access

noun

the capacity of a videodisc or compact disc player that allows the user to select and replay any portion without starting at the beginning.
availability, as of a service or facility, whenever needed or desired:
an executive's need for random access to legal experts.

random-access

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adjective

Computers.

direct-access.

random access

noun

another name for direct access

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Origin of random access¹

First recorded in 1950–55

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This would involve using the magnetic moment of electrons instead of their charge in dynamic random access memory.

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In 2014, Swift’s “Red” lost the award to Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories,” and in 2022 “Evermore” lost to Batiste’s “We Are.”

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The garage pioneer Todd Edwards got a shout-out from Daft Punk on the aforementioned “Teachers” — and then he started working with the group on later albums “Discovery” and “Random Access Memories.”

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Bangalter’s wariness of AI aside, a 10th-anniversary reissue of the duo’s final album, “Random Access Memories,” is on the way.

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Released in 2013, their final album, Random Access Memories was a lush, colourful tribute to the soul, disco and soft rock they'd been raised on.

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