log in
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Etymology edit
By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.
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Audio (Southern England): (file)
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log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
- (transitive) To be placed at a certain ranking.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209:
- Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.
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gain access to a computer system
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Audio: (file)
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- inflection of inloggen:
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