accessing

/AE1 K S EH0 S IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

  2. 2

    (uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

  3. 3

    (uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

  4. 4

    (uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

  5. 5

    (uncountable, networking) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

  6. 6

    (uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.

  7. 7

    (uncountable, law) The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

  8. 8

    (countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

  9. 9

    (countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.

  10. 10

    (countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

  11. 11

    (uncountable, Scotland) Complicity or assent.

  12. 12

    (archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession

verb
  1. 1

    (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

  2. 2

    (transitive, computing) To have access to (data).