log in

Meaning

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
  2. (transitive) To be placed at a certain ranking.

Opposite of
log off#Verb, log out#Verb, sign off#Verb, sign out#Verb
Etymology

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.

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