a charge made for the use of computer or local telephone-network facilities
an educational course enabling those without traditional qualifications to become eligible for higher education
the facility of retrieving data immediately from any part of a computer file, without having to read the file from the beginning
the process of transferring information to or from memory in which every memory location can be accessed directly rather than being accessed in a fixed sequence
access to a computer data file that requires the user to read through the file from the beginning in the order in which it is stored
a charge made for the use of computer or local telephone-network facilities
(of a computer system) allowing the simultaneous connection of a number of terminals