seek time vs time interval

seek time and time interval both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
seek time	Yes	No	No	No
time interval	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, time interval is a hypernym of seek time; that is, time interval is a word with a broader meaning than seek time:

seek time: (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
time interval: a definite length of time marked off by two instants

Other hypernyms of seek time include interval.

seek time (noun)	time interval (noun)
(computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track	a definite length of time marked off by two instants