access

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
access/ˈakses/

▶noun

• 1 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?

• 2 retrieval of information stored in a computer's memory.

• 3 literary an outburst of an emotion: an access of rage.

▶verb

• 1 approach or enter (a place).

• 2 Computing obtain, examine, or retrieve (data).

– origin ME: from L. accessus, from accedere (see accede).