English Explanatory Dictionary

access

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
  2. The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
  3. The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
  4. The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
  5. Admission to sexual intercourse.
  6. An increase by addition; accession
  7. An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
  8. An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
  9. The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
  10. The process of locating data in memory.
  11. Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
  12. Complicity or assent.
verb
  1. To gain or obtain access to.
  2. To have access to (data).

Pronunciation

/ˈæksɛs/ ăkʹsĕs' /ˈækˌsɛs/ en-us-access.ogg /əkˈsɛs/ ək-sĕsʹ

Word forms

access accesses accessing accessed

Etymology

From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces (“attack, onslaught”) or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach; accede”), from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). Doublet of accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.

Related words

accede accessary accessibility accessible accessibly accession accessory

Derived words

access agent access code access control access course access day access journalism accessless access method access modifier accessor access point access road access specifier access time access token access violation accessway anti-access area denial controlled-access highway data access object direct access e-access inaccess limited-access highway multiaccess nonaccess online public access catalog open access public access quick access recorder random access read-only access remote access self-access deaccess reaccess unaccessed
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