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Access

Access Meaning & Definition
Access Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Access?

[n] the act of approaching or entering; "he gained access to the building"
[n] a way of entering or leaving; "he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge"
[n] (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
[n] the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
[n] the right to enter
[v] reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof"
[v] obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer

Synonyms | Synonyms for Access: admittance | approach | entree | get at | memory access

Related Terms | Find terms related to Access: abdominal epilepsy | accessibility | accession | accretion | accrual | accruement | accumulation | acquired epilepsy | activated epilepsy | addition | adit | admission | admittance | advance | advent | affect epilepsy | afflux | affluxion | aggrandizement | air lock | aisle | akinetic epilepsy | alley | ambulatory | amplification | aperture | apoplexy | appreciation | approach | approachability | approaching | appropinquation | approximation | appulse | arcade | arrest | artery | ascent | attack | attainability | augmentation | autonomic epilepsy | availability | avenue | bad influence | ballooning | big wheel | blaze of temper | bloating | blockage | blowup | boom | boost | broadening | buildup | burst | cardiac epilepsy | channel | cloister | clonic spasm | clonus | colonnade | come-at-ableness | coming | coming near | coming toward | communication | conduit | connection | convulsion | corridor | cortical epilepsy | court | covered way | cramp | crescendo | cursive epilepsy | defile | development | diurnal epilepsy | eclampsia | edema | elevation | eminence grise | enlargement | entrance | entranceway | entree | entry | entryway | epilepsia | epilepsia gravior | epilepsia major | epilepsia minor | epilepsia mitior | epilepsia nutans | epilepsia tarda | epilepsy | epitasis | eruption | exit | expansion | explosion | extension | falling sickness | ferry | fit | five-percenter | flare-up | flood | flowing toward | focal epilepsy | ford | forthcoming | frenzy | friend at court | gain | gallery | gangplank | gangway | getatableness | gettableness | good influence | grand mal | gray eminence | greatening | grip | growth | gush | gust | hall | haute mal | heavyweight | hidden hand | high words | hike | hysterical epilepsy | ictus | imminence | import | importation | importing | in | income | incoming | increase | increment | infiltration | inflation | influence | influence peddler | influencer | ingoing | ingress | ingression | ingroup | inlet | input | insertion | insinuation | intake | interchange | interpenetration | intersection | introduction | introgression | intrusion | Jacksonian epilepsy | jump | junction | key | kingmaker | lane | larval epilepsy | laryngeal epilepsy | laryngospasm | latent epilepsy | leakage | leap | lobby | lobbyist | lockjaw | lords of creation | man of influence | manipulator | matutinal epilepsy | means of access | menstrual epilepsy | mounting | multiplication | musicogenic epilepsy | myoclonous epilepsy | nearing | nearness | nocturnal epilepsy | obtainability | obtainableness | occlusion | oncoming | onset | open arms | open door | open sesame | opening | openness | orgasm | outburst | outlet | overpass | pang | paroxysm | pass | passage | passageway | penetrability | penetration | percolation | perviousness | petit mal | physiologic epilepsy | portico | powers that be | pressure group | procurability | procurableness | productiveness | proliferation | proximation | psychic epilepsy | psychomotor epilepsy | railroad tunnel | raise | Rasputin | reachableness | reception | reflex epilepsy | rise | Rolandic epilepsy | rotatoria | route | sally | scene | securableness | seepage | seizure | sensory epilepsy | serial epilepsy | sexual climax | sinister influence | snowballing | spasm | special interests | special-interest group | spell | spread | stitch | stoppage | storm | stroke | surge | Svengali | swelling | taking | tardy epilepsy | tetanus | tetany | the Establishment | throes | thromboembolism | thrombosis | tonic epilepsy | tonic spasm | torsion spasm | traject | trajet | traumatic epilepsy | trismus | tumescence | tunnel | turn | twinge | ucinate epilepsy | underpass | up | upping | upsurge | upswing | uptrend | upturn | very important person | vestibule | VIP | visitation | waxing | way | way in | wheeler-dealer | widening | wire-puller

See Also | approach | approaching | arrive at | attain | back door | coming | disk access | door | entrance | entranceway | entree | entry | entryway | find | gain | hit | log in | log on | login | make | operation | reach | recover | regain | retrieve | right | way

Access In Webster's Dictionary

\Ac*cess"\ (#; 277), n. [F. acc[`e]s, L. accessus, fr. accedere. See {Accede}.] 1. A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. --Shak. 2. The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. ``All access was thronged.'' --Milton. 3. Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. --Blackstone. 4. Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. --Milton. 5. An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. --Burnet. 6. A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [A Gallicism]

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