n.
- the means or opportunity to approach or enter a place.
▸the right or opportunity to use something or see someone:
do you have access to a computer?
- retrieval of information stored in a computer's memory.
- literary an outburst of an emotion:
an access of rage.
v.
- approach or enter (a place).
- Computing obtain, examine, or retrieve (data).
Etymology
ME: from L. accessus, from accedere (see accede).