Definition of "access" in Anglais

noun

1. (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

   • The door provides access to the premises.

2. (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

   • They gained access to the basement from the stairs.

3. (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

   • Staff prevent unauthorized access to the building.

4. (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

   • ease of access

5. (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.

6. (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession

   • an access of territory

7. (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

8. (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.

   • 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.

9. (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

10. (countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

11. (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

12. (uncountable, Scotland) Complicity or assent.

verb

1. (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

2. (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).

   • I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.