access method

American  

noun

Computers.

1. a method of accessing data read from or written to an external storage medium, determined by software and the organization of data on the medium.

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Example Sentences

“Generally, I would be worried about a device either being used as an access method to my devices or as an information-gathering tool on its own,” James Loving, a security researcher affiliated with MIT, told me via email.

From Slate

I’m more inclined to believe that a paralyzing fear of revealing any possible intelligence source or access method, coupled with a deeply misguided sense of the extent to which people blindly trust the assertions of the U.S. government, has led to these sharply worded but ultimately unsupported accusations.

From Slate

There are numerous ways to guard a secondary access method to encrypted data.

From New York Times

They can accomplish this through their distributed file system which not only supports classic block and file access method, but new access methods that support object stores and Hadoop based applications as well.

From Forbes

The touch rate is the fraction of total stored data accessible per unit time using the typical access method and object size for the application.

From Forbes