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An access specifier controls the access of nonmember functions to the member functions and variables of a class. The C++ access specifiers are public, private, and protected. See public, private, and protected for details. Also see friend.

Access time is a measure of how long it takes to retrieve data from a storage device, such as a hard disk or RAM.

Address; see memory address.

An algorithm is a set of precisely defined steps guaranteed to arrive at an answer to a problem or set of problems. As this implies, a set of steps that might never end is not an algorithm in the strictest sense.

Aliasing is the practice of referring to one object by more than one “name”; in C++, these names are actually pointers or references.

The aliasing problem ...

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