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 |
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admittance |
advance |
advent |
affect epilepsy |
afflux |
affluxion |
aggrandizement |
air lock |
aisle |
akinetic epilepsy |
alley |
ambulatory |
amplification |
aperture |
apoplexy |
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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 |
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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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