access

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
2. (transitive) To have access to (data).

Synonyms

approach

admission

admittance

entrance

entry

attack

👊

aggression

accession

entree

get at

ingress

passage

impetus

impulse

way

strike

memory access

reach

offensive

fit

assault

fetch

coming

enter

access code

retrieve

path

🛣️

bring

door

🚪

inlet

get

complete

arrival

collect

coast

approximation

closed path

closed circuit

circuit

escape

charge

apply

acquaintance

entry point

channel

call for

application

exercise

extra

encounter

Translations

accès

acesso

acceso

accesso

πρόσβαση

Zugang

toegang

Zugriff

accéder

entrée

acceder

entrada

aanval

acessar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæksɛs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: accesse

In summary

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.

Sentences

Hash tables can access their elements in constant time .

Anyone with access to the Internet can create a username and play for free .

They require users to have permissions to access the shared resources .