access.
A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
Meaning & usage
A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
The door provides access to the premises.
The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
They gained access to the basement from the stairs.
The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
Staff prevent unauthorized access to the building.
The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
ease of access
Admission to sexual intercourse.
An increase by addition; accession.
an access of territory
An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
The process of locating data in memory.
Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
Complicity or assent.
Where this word comes from
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.
To gain or obtain access to.
To have access to (data).
I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1962.
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