Access
Encyclopedia
Companies and organizations
- ACCESS (Australia)ACCESS (Australia)ACCESS is the youth network of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a non-government institution dealing with all aspects of Australia's foreign relations and international affairs....
, an Australian youth network - Access Co.Access Co., founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa, is a company providing a variety of software for connected and mobile devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, video game consoles and set top boxes....
, a Japanese software company - Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Dallas, Texas. It uses nanotechnology to modify existing medications to improve their efficacy and tolerance....
, a pharmaceutical company in the US - Access VirusAccess VirusThe Access Virus is a virtual analog synthesizer made by the German company Access Music GmbH. It was first produced in 1997 and has since been upgraded frequently, with the company releasing new models about every two years. Early models include the Virus A, Virus B, and Virus C series, each...
, a German musical equipment manufacturer. - AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support ServicesAirCraft Casualty Emotional Support ServicesAirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services is an American nonprofit support group based in New York City that helps surviving family members of aircraft crash victims....
(ACCESS) - Arab Community Center for Economic and Social ServicesArab Community Center for Economic and Social ServicesThe Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services is a human services organization committed to the development of the Arab American community in all aspects of economic and cultural life. ACCESS helps low-income families, as well as newly arrived immigrants adapt to life in the United...
(ACCESS) - Access Software, the original name of Indie Built Inc.Indie BuiltIndie Built, Inc. was a Salt Lake City, Utah based video game developer founded in 1982 by Bruce Carver as Access Software.They are popular for creating the golfing Links series and also for creating the video game detective series based on the character Tex Murphy.In 1987, Access announced The...
- Access Community Health Network, health care clinic
- The Access GroupThe Access GroupThe Access Group is a consultancy and business software developer, serving the mid-market. Headquartered in Stratford St Mary, Essex, it has seven other offices across the UK and one in Ireland...
, UK-based business software company
Computer software
- Microsoft AccessMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...
, a database program which is part of the MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
office suiteOffice suiteIn computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers... - The ability to read or write data governed by filesystem permissions
- Access Linux PlatformAccess Linux PlatformThe Access Linux Platform , once referred to as a "next-generation version of the Palm OS" is an open source-based operating system for mobile devices developed and marketed by Access Co., of Tokyo, Japan. The platform includes execution environments for Java, classic Palm OS, and GTK+-based native...
, an operating system for mobile devices - Access, the process of finding and obtaining data in Computer-assisted language learningComputer-assisted language learningComputer-assisted language learning is succinctly defined in a seminal work by Levy as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning"...
Space and technology
- Access networkAccess networkAn access network is that part of a telecommunications network which connects subscribers to their immediate service provider. It is contrasted with the core network, which connects local providers to each other...
, the process of signing onto a network - Access 5Access 5Access 5 was a national project run by NASA in collaboration with industry, the Federal Aviation Administration , and the United States Department of Defense , in order to introduce high altitude, long endurance remotely operated aircraft for routine flights in the National Airspace System ....
, a NASA program - Experimental Assembly of Structures in EVA and Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (EASE and ACCESS), a pair of space shuttle flight experiments
Sport
- Access 2.3, sailing keelboatKeelboatKeelboat has two distinct meanings related to two different types of boats: one a riverine cargo-capable working boat, and the other a classification for small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yachts.-Historical keel-boats:...
- Access 303, sailing keelboat
- Access Liberty, sailing keelboat
Television
- "Access" (The West Wing)Access (The West Wing)-Plot:Producing a program on past and present White House press secretaries, a television documentary crew follows C.J. around to film a "typical" day. But the presence of outsiders adds stress when a crisis involving a terrorist shootout with the FBI has a smiling C.J. trying to keep the story a...
, a television episode - Access (TV channel)Access (TV channel)CTV Two Alberta is a Canadian English language entertainment, information, and educational television channel in the province of Alberta...
, a Canadian educational television channel - Access Television NetworkAccess Television NetworkAccess Television Network is a company based in Irvine, California which distributes infomercials and other paid programming through about 300 cable television systems airing in more than 35 million households...
, an American infomercial channel - Access HollywoodAccess HollywoodAccess Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...
, an entertainment newsmagazine. - Access (TV series)Access (TV series)Access was a Canadian Community television series whichaired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1982, except 1981.-Premise:...
, a Canadian television series (1974–1982) - Public, educational, and government accessPublic, educational, and government accessPublic, educational, and government access television, refers to three different cable television specialty channels...
, American Public, educational and government (PEG) access cable TV channels
Other meanings
- Access controlAccess controlAccess control refers to exerting control over who can interact with a resource. Often but not always, this involves an authority, who does the controlling. The resource can be a given building, group of buildings, or computer-based information system...
is the ability to permit or deny the use of a particular resource - Access (comics)Access (comics)Access is a fictional character owned by both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He made his first appearance in DC vs. Marvel #1 , a special crossover between the two companies. He was created as both a way to explain the events of the story as well as a means to enable future intercompany...
, a comic book character - Access (economics)Access (economics)Access is a catalytic process that enables interactions, contacts and exchanges among people, businesses and nations. An analytical framework to define the drivers and benefits of Access and to quantify the impact of Access on economic growth and personal well-being was created in 2006 by the...
- Access (group)Access (group)Access is a Japanese pop group. Its members are Daisuke Asakura and Hiroyuki Takami; it is a part of Sony Music Japan....
, a Japanese musical group - Access (credit card)Access (credit card)Access was a credit card brand originally introduced in the United Kingdom in 1972 by a consortium of National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank , Lloyds Bank , and The Royal Bank of Scotland, as a rival to the established Barclaycard...
- Contact (law)Contact (law)In family law, contact is one of the general terms which denotes the level of contact a parent or other significant person in a child's life can have with that child...
, the right to visitation in family law - Access courseAccess courseThe Access to Higher Education Diploma is a qualification which prepares students - usually mature students, although the minimum age to be able to study for an access diploma is actually nineteen - for study as an undergraduate at university...
, an academic entrance exam in the United Kingdom - Access date, refers to the date when a digital source like a web site was visited in order to obtain some information