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access control lists

access control lists is the plural of access control list.

Meaning of access control list

Noun

access control list (plural access control lists)

  1. A security scheme for file-level security (as opposed to traditional user, group levels, or the somewhat stricter role levels). Abbreviated ACL.
    • The hackers broke through the B security model, so no more role-level security: all critical data must use access control lists from now on.

Questions about access control lists

What is access control lists the plural of?
Access control lists is the plural of access control list.

Words near access control lists in the dictionary

  1. access agent
  2. access code
  3. access codes
  4. access control
  5. access control list
  6. access control lists
  7. access controls
  8. access course
  9. access courses
  10. access day
  11. access days

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Adapted from Wiktionary: access control lists (page history and authors); access control list (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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