Access Code

Access code may refer to:

In authentication:

  • Password, a secret word.
  • Personal identification number (PIN), a secret numeric code.

In telecommunications:

  • National access code, used to dial a domestic call.
  • International access code, used to dial an international call.
  • Area code, a segment of a telephone number.

Famous quotes containing the words access and/or code:

    “Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll
    Of black artillery; he comes, though late;
    In code corroborating Calvin’s creed
    And cynic tyrannies of honest kings;
    He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed,
    Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds
    The grimy slur on the Republic’s faith implied,
    Which holds that Man is naturally good,
    And—more—is Nature’s Roman, never to be
    scourged.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)