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).