Usually means: Time to position read/write head.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word seek time:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek time: Merriam-Webster
  2. seek time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. seek time: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. seek time: Vocabulary.com
  5. seek time: Dictionary.com
  6. Seek time: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. seek time: Rhymezone
  8. seek time: FreeDictionary.org
  9. seek time: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. seek time: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. seek time: Wiktionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek time: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Technopedia (No longer online)
  5. seek time: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Seek Time: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See seek_times as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (seek time)

noun:  (computing, computer hardware) The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.

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