the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)
a way of entering or leaving
he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge
synonymous: approach
a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.)
synonymous: access code
(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information
synonymous: memory access
the act of approaching or entering
he gained access to the building
access v.
obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer