access

Meanings

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 in.

Verb

• To gain or obtain access to.
• To have access to (data).

Origin

• From Middle English accesse, acces, borrowed from Middle French acces ("attack, onslaught") or from its source Latin accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō, from ad + cēdō. accessus. First attested in the early 14th century. The sense "entrance" was first attested about 1380.
• First attested in 1962.