log in

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
To be placed at a certain ranking.

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By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.

log on sign in sign on log into

log off log out sign off sign out

logoff log-on logon logout

log-in login log into

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