Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Microsoft Access
     
        1.  A {relational database} running under {Microsoft
        Windows}.  Data is stored as a number of "{tables}",
        e.g. "Stock".  Each table consists of a number of "{records}"
        (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number
        of "{fields}", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in
        stock".
     
        Access allows the user to create "{forms}" and "reports".  A
        form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the
        user to step through records one at a time.  A report shows
        selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped
        into sections with different kinds of total (including sum,
        minimum, maximum, average).
     
        There are also facilities to use links ("{joins}") between
        tables which share a common field and to filter records
        according to certain criteria or search for particular field
        values.
     
        Version: 2 (date?).
     
        {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.databases.ms-access}.
     
        2.  A communications program from Microsoft,
        meant to compete with {ProComm} and other programs.  It sucked
        and was dropped.  Years later they reused the name for their
        database.
     
        [Date?]
     
        (1997-07-20)