access

== English == === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæksɛs/ (General American) enPR: ăkʹsĕs', IPA(key): /ˈækˌsɛs/ Rhymes: -æksɛs Hyphenation: ac‧cess ==== Noun ==== access (countable and uncountable, plural accesses) (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage. (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance. (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility. (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter. (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse. (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit. (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion. 1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell) It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations. (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child. (countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory. (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet. (uncountable, Scotland) Complicity or assent. ===== Usage notes ===== (outburst, paroxysm): sometimes confused with excess. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === First attested in 1962. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæksɛs/, /əkˈsɛs/ (uncommon) (General American) enPR: ăkʹsĕs', ək-sĕsʹ, IPA(key): /ˈækˌsɛs/, /əkˈsɛs/ (uncommon) Rhymes: -æksɛs, -ɛs Hyphenation: ac‧cess ==== Verb ==== access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed) (transitive) To gain or obtain access to. (transitive, computing) To have access to (data). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ⇒ Brazilian Portuguese: acessar ===== Translations ===== === References === “access”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “access”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “access”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. access in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. “access, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.