Dictionary Definition
access
Noun
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" [syn: approach]
4 (computer science) the operation of reading or
writing stored information [syn: memory
access]
5 the act of approaching or entering; "he gained
access to the building"
Verb
1 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?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even
if I climb on the roof" [syn: get at]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /ˈæk.sɛs/, /"
Extensive Definition
Access may refer
to:
- ACCESS (Australia), a not-for-profit International Relations Youth group in Sydney, Australia
- Access credit card, now part of MasterCard
- Access (comics), a character in DC and Marvel Comics
- Access (The West Wing), an episode of The West Wing
- Access (economics), Access is a catalytic process that enables interactions, contacts and exchanges among people, businesses and nations.
- Access (group), a Japanese pop band under Sony Music Japan
- ACCESS high school ministry, a high school ministry in Modesto,CA at Big Valley Grace Community Church.
- Access in telecommunications
- Access Co., a software company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Access (law), law governing architectural provisions for persons with disabilities
- Access Music, a German synthesizer manufacturer
- Access programme, a type of preparation course in the United Kingdom
- Access Hollywood, an entertainment newsmagazine
- Access Television Network, a cable infomercial channel in the United States
- Access (TV channel), an educational television station in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- ACCESS.bus, a peripheral-interconnect computer bus developed by Philips
- Access 5, a project sponsored by NASA
- AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services, an American nonprofit for grieving families of aviation disaster victims
- EASE/ACCESS, a Space Shuttle flight experiment
Access may also refer
to:
- Microsoft Access, a database management system
- Access Linux Platform
- Contact (law) (formerly referred to as "access"), a term used in family law
- Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
- A stereotype defined by the Unified Modeling Language
access in Uzbek:
Access
access in German:
Access
access in French:
Access
access in Korean:
액세스
access in Dutch:
Access
access in Japanese:
アクセス
access in Russian:
Access
access in Turkish:
Access
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Jacksonian epilepsy, Rasputin, Rolandic epilepsy,
Svengali, VIP, 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, 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, reachableness, reception, reflex epilepsy,
rise, 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, 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, visitation, waxing, way, way in, wheeler-dealer,
widening,
wire-puller