access
IPA: ˈæksɛs
noun
- (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.
- (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.
verb
- (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
- (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).
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Examples of "access" in Sentences
- The is accessible through the Web.
- The site is accessible to the public.
- The access is restricted by the owner.
- The access to the island is restricted.
- The collection is accessible to the public.
- The homestead is not accessible to the public.
- The router accesses the Internet through the modem.
- The basic problem was the lack of internet access back in the eighties.
- Changelings have the innate ability to enter, access and explore the hedge.
- Nowadays, the Internet allows you to access to any information that you want.
- Your article uses the word "access" three times to describe a woman's right to birth control.
- The "Big D" boasts the sweep and size of a blue-ribbon Western river, but walk-in access is limited-better to explore it by drift boat.
- *The term access capitalist was first used in a 1993 New Republic piece by Michael Lewis that was one of the first serious critiques of Carlyle.
- Quoth I, ‘I will start and go to my house at once and suffer hard things for thy sake and contrive how thou mayst win access to him, for such access is difficult at this present.’
- This year's capital investment continues TELUS 'longstanding commitment to providing Albertans with access to some of the world's best telecommunications technology, including the fastest and biggest wireless network that Albertans can access*. "
- An access control technology that times out a lawfully made copy so that the lawful owner or lawful renter of that copy has to pay the copyright holder to gain access is the same as a technology allowing copyright holders to charge a toll to cross the Brooklyn Bridge.
- You can access the forums at one of two URLs: www. mexconnect.com/forums - in this case, you will NOT have the jump to first unread post feature - this access is the one that will now be used by google and other search engines to have information from the forums reflectedin their search results.
- Slide 15: "iPhone and the changed rules of the game for mobile internet" by Ulrika Steg, Product Manager Consumer markets, TeliaSonera Ulrika presented the impact from the Launch of the iPhone. 28\% more data traffic in their 3G network after 1 week, since 160\% more data traffic Most iPhone users browse outside their portal (the way it should have been everywhere from day 1 when internet access was possible on a mobile phone!) vs. non-iPhone users User cost control important iPhone users feel they have internet in a pocket 80\% of buyers men under age 35 and half live in big cities (I think this also depends on the fact that in big cities you do have 3G coverage, I know a friend of mine living out in the country in northern Sweden and as he put it, \ "you have to climb up in a f\%\%\%ing tree to get phone access\") The good thing about the iPhone launch, it forced the mobile operators to start thinking about how to offer value priced \ "flat-fee like\" data plans.