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• cycle time

  A measurement of how quickly two back-to-back accesses of a memory chip can be made. Note that a DRAM chip’s cycle time is usually much longer than its access time, which measures only a single access. This is because there is a latency between successive memory accesses.

• cylinder

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• cylinder zero

  Cylinder zero refers to the outermost cylinder in a hard disk that can be used for data storage.

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