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accessing

verb
SayAK-ses-ingUS/ˈækˌsɛsɪŋ/UK/ˈæksɛsɪŋ/

1 meaning of accessing

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of access.

    The technician was accessing the server logs when the power failed.

    Accessing classified records without authorization is a serious offense.

    Note

    A transitive form, so it takes its object directly: accessing the files, accessing a database, never accessing to them. The preposition belongs to the noun. You gain access to a building, but you are accessing it. Even as a gerund it keeps that direct object (accessing the archive requires a password), and its range runs from reaching a place to reading stored data.

accessing is a form of access

access, verb: To gain or obtain entry to, or use of, something. Full entry

Forms
accessaccesses he/she/itaccessing -ing formaccessed past tense, past participle
Spelling
access → accessing: add -ing

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