| access | the act of approaching or entering, he gained access to the building |
| port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
access
approach | a way of entering or leaving, he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge |
| access memory access | (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information |
access road
slip road | a short road giving access to an expressway, in Britain they call an access road a slip road |
| disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
doorway
door room access
threshold | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building, the space that a door can close, he stuck his head in the doorway |
parallel bars
bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
parallel circuit
shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
parallel interface
parallel port | an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously |
random-access memory
random access memory
random memory
RAM read
write memory | the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on, an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible |
uneven parallel bars
uneven bars | a pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics |
analogue
analog
parallel | something having the property of being analogous to something else |
| access | the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) |
entree
access
accession
admission
admittance | the right to enter |
Euclid's fifth axiom
parallel axiom | only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line |
access
access code | 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.) |
| Parallel Lives | a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch, used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays |
latitude line of latitude
parallel of latitude
parallel | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
| parallel-veined leaf | a leaf whose veins run in parallel from the stem |
distributed data processing
remote-access data processing
teleprocessing | data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities |
multiprocessing
parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
parallel operation
simultaneous operation | the simultaneous execution of two or more operations |
| parallel | (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes), parallels never meet |
| access time | (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive, access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead |
parallel
collimate | make or place parallel to something, They paralleled the ditch to the highway |
| parallel-park | park directly behind another vehicle |
access
get at | reach or gain access to, How does one access the attic in this house?, I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof |
| de-access | dispose of by selling, the museum sold off its collection of French impressionists to raise money, the publishing house sold off one of its popular magazines |
| access | obtain or retrieve from a storage device, as of information on a computer |
| parallel | be parallel to, Their roles are paralleled by ours |
twin
duplicate
parallel | duplicate or match, The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse |
| unidirectional | operating or moving or allowing movement in one direction only, a unidirectional flow, a unidirectional antenna, a unidirectional approach to a problem |
| parallel | being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting, parallel lines never converge, concentric circles are parallel, dancers in two parallel rows |
| parallel | of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations, parallel processing |