HOW TO PRONOUNCE
access
/ˈækˌsɛs/
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What does access mean?
noun
- A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
More meanings (11)
noun
- The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- Admission to sexual intercourse.
- An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- The process of locating data in memory.
- Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- Complicity or assent.
- (archaic) An increase by addition; accession.
verb
- To gain or obtain access to.
- To have access to (data).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈækˌsɛs/
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Toward the north the escarpments were lowered by a depression which would probably have given access to the interior of the crater.
Fred followed her with his eyes, hoping that they would meet hers, and in that way find access for his imploring penitence.
More book examples (3)
Our Officers also have free access to the prisons, where they can conduct services and labour with the inmates for their Salvation.
I found, however, that the information given in books--at least in the books to which I had access was meagre and unsatisfactory.
But that knowledge implies access on the part of some one to long series of records of practical observations of the heavens.