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).