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Log in

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password. intransitive, transitive

    "I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password."

  2. 2
    enter a computer wordnet
  3. 3
    To be placed at a certain ranking. transitive

    "Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968."

Etymology

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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