access point

American  

noun

Library Science.

1. a code, term, or the like through which an entry in a bibliographic record may be found.

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Example Sentences

The tactility of the photographs in “Still Processing” provide an access point to the past.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

McGrath said companies will be able to set up fully online within 48 hours through a single access point, with no minimum capital requirement.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

But unlike those movies, “Taxi Driver” declined to provide audiences with an access point in the form of a noble protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

It’s not absurd for the only liquid access point to a vertically integrated AI monopoly with 7 billion miles of training data, 1 million GPUs and $4 billion in quarterly free cash flow.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

Searching for an access point large enough for us might take hours.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman