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1. The right to enter
   - entrée, accession, admission, admittance
    
2. The right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
    
3. A way of entering or leaving
   "he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge";
   - approach
    
4. A code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
   - access code
    
5. (computing) the operation of reading or writing stored information
   - memory access
    
6. The act of approaching or entering
   "he gained access to the building"

1. (computing) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
    
2. Reach or gain access to
   "How does one access the attic in this house?";
   - get at

Derived forms: accessing, accesses, accessed

Type of: approach, approaching, arrive at, at hand, attain, close at hand, code, coming, find, gain, hit, imminent, impendent, impending, make, operation, reach, recover, regain, retrieve, right, way

Encyclopedia: Access, IEEE