access
Pronunciation: /ˈæksɛs/
The English word “access” has 14 meanings listed here.
noun
- A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- Admission to sexual intercourse.
- An increase by addition; accession.
- 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.
verb
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.
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