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Accessible rural areas
Countryside settlements that can be reached relatively easily from a city, allowing regular journeys for work, shopping and services.
Accession
The moment when a person succeeds to the throne and becomes monarch, rather than the later ceremony of coronation.
Access permission
A rule that determines what a user is allowed to access or do, such as viewing or editing a shared file.
Access right
A permission controlling how a user can interact with a system or resource, such as reading, modifying or deleting a file.
Access rights
Permissions specifying which resources a user may access and which actions they may perform.
Access to care
The ability to obtain medical advice, care or treatment, affected by factors such as cost, location and availability.
Access to justice
The ability to use the legal system to protect rights, present a case and seek a fair resolution.
Access to research subjects
The practical ability to locate and contact potential participants, secure their participation and, where necessary, enter their setting and maintain their cooperation.
Access to safe water
The percentage of people who have access to drinking water that is safe to consume.
Acclamation
A short expression of praise or faith voiced or sung by worshippers.
Accommodation
Adapting to life under an occupying power, often to survive or protect a family, without necessarily supporting its aims.
Accommodation
The change in lens shape that focuses light from near or distant objects onto the retina.
Accommodation
Changing an existing schema, or developing a new one, because new information does not fit the existing understanding.
Accompaniment
Food served with a dish, such as a sauce or vegetables, which can add colour, flavour and texture.
Accomplishment
A socially valued skill, such as music, drawing or dancing, associated in Austen’s society with a well-educated, genteel woman.
Accomplishments
Skills associated with a genteel woman’s education, such as music, drawing, dancing and modern languages, often displayed socially.
Accountability
The requirement that those exercising power explain their decisions and can be challenged or removed.
Accountability
The responsibility to explain decisions and outcomes, answer for them and address problems when they occur.
Accountability
Being answerable to Allah for one’s beliefs, intentions and actions.
Accountability
A duty to explain decisions and conduct, and to face scrutiny or consequences for them.
Accounts
Records of income or expenditure, which may identify purchases, payments, dates and recipients.
Accretion
The build-up of material through deposition, which can cause a shoreline to advance.
Accumulation
The addition of snow and ice to a glacier.
Accumulator
A variable that stores a running total as successive values are added to it.
Accumulator (ACC)
The CPU register that temporarily stores results of calculations carried out by the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU).
Accuracy
How close a measurement or record is to the true value.
Accuracy
How close a measured value is to the true value.
Accuracy
The closeness of a measured result to the true value.
Accuracy
The closeness of a measurement to the true value.
Accuracy
How close a measurement is to the true value.
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