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
(of a computer system) allowing the simultaneous connection of a number of terminals
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
code division multiple access, a telephone transmission system in which many coded calls simultaneously occupy a single channel