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| Domain | Definition |
Census | An entrance to a living quarters directly from the outside of a building or through a common or public hall (such as in an apartment building). (references) |
Energy | The ability of an electric power consumer to purchase electricity from a supplier of their choice without being physically inhibited by the owner of the electric distribution and transmission system to which the consumer is connected to. (See also Open Access.). (references) |
| The ability of a retailcustomer to purchase commodity electricity directly from the wholesalemarket rather than through a local distribution utility. (See alsoRetail Competition). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. The capability to obtain data from a storage device, or to enter data into a storage device, in a sequence independent of their relative positions by means of addresses that indicate the physical location of the data.
2. Pertaining to the organization and access method that must be used for a storage structure in which locations of records are determined by their keys, without reference to an index or to other records that may have been previously accessed.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Direct access."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DIANE | English | DIrect Access Network for Europe | Computer - Computer - (ESPRIT) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DIRECT ACCESS |
| English words defined with "DIRECT ACCESS": court ♦ motel, motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge ♦ tourist court. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DIRECT ACCESS": Cusps ♦ DASD, DirectX ♦ hard link, Housing unit ♦ ICI, Industry Standard Architecture, ISCED 2A, ISCED 2B, ISCED 3A, ISCED 3B, ISCED level 2A, ISCED level 2B, ISCED level 3A, ISCED level 3B ♦ Polar Cusps ♦ RETAIL COMPETITION ♦ separate living quarters ♦ UDC. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Authorizations, when required, should be for an adequate number of direct access visits under an approved treatment plan. (references) | |
Business | Direct access to hard currency revenues make forestry companies prospective importers of U.S.-manufactured equipment and machinery. (references) | |
This would allow the foreign company to benefit from direct access to the German market, the supply infrastructure and available sales staff. (references) | ||
Northwest Russia is a large ecological system that comprises the water basins of Lake Ladoga, the Gulf of Finland, and the Baltic Sea, and has direct access to the White Sea in the North. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | India | The central Government generally has denied NGO's and the UNHCR direct access to the camps. (references) |
Burma | The country's first cybercafe opened in Rangoon in 1999, but does not offer patrons direct access to the Internet. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Clients of the two largest Internet providers, Kaztelecom and Nursat, periodically were blocked from direct access to the opposition Evrasia Web site, although access was still available through proxy servers. (references) | |
Economic History | Austria | Traders world-wide now have on-screen information and direct access to all stocks listed in Vienna. (references) |
Laos | The government set the exchange rate close to real market levels, lifted trade barriers, replaced import barriers with tariffs, and gave private sector firms direct access to imports and credit. (references) | |
Austria | Austria is on the frontier of the changing European landscape and offers U.S. companies the excitement and opportunity of a growing market with direct access to East Europe and the future of EU expansion. (references) | |
Trade | Honduras | At present, no local bank has direct access to Ex-Im Bank's credit lines. (references) |
Ireland | The Shannon Free Trade Zone, located at the Shannon International Airport, is the world's oldest free zone and was established in 1947. This facility is attractive as an international distribution and warehouse center serving Western Europe because it provides the unique combination of a custom-free industrial zone and direct access to air and surface transport to the United Kingdom and other European markets. (references) | |
Travel | Czech Rep | U.S. long distance operators serve Prague through direct access numbers. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | Labor inspectors at the state and local level have overwhelming case loads, and in many cases, do not receive adequate support or protection to challenge employers, who often have direct access to government officials. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
direct access | 313 |
direct access trading | 53 |
direct access broker | 48 |
direct access firm | 11 |
direct access routing technology | 5 |
direct access physical therapy | 5 |
direct access training | 4 |
canadian direct access broker | 3 |
direct access software | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DIRECT ACCESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fælles direkte tilgangsenhed (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gemeenschappelijk direct toegankelijke geheugeneenheid (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhteinen suorasaantilaite (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | unité collective de mémoire accès sélectif (shared direct access device), MAS (Direct Access Storage Device), mémoire accès sélectif (Direct Access Storage Device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Direktzugriff (direct-access, random access). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άμεση πρόσβαση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | unit di memoria ad accesso diretto in comune (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irectday accessay opção de dispositivo de acesso directo compartilhado (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) unidad de acceso directo compartido (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) gemensamt direktminne (shared DASD, shared direct access device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-e-i-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: desiccates. | |
-3 letters: accredits, creasiest, desiccate, sectaries, steadiers. | |
-4 letters: acceders, accessed, accredit, accreted, accretes, acridest, ascetics, asserted, caressed, cateress, cerastes, cercises, deciares, descries, desertic, diasters, diesters, disaster, discreet, discrete, disrates, editress, readiest, resisted, scarcest, scariest, seriated, seriates, sidecars, sistered, steadier, steadies. | |
-5 letters: acceder, accedes, accrete, actress, aeriest, arctics, aridest, ascetic, ascites, astride, carices, casters, catered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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