accessor

From access +‎ -or.

accessor (plural accessors)

1. Someone or something that accesses.
2. (object-oriented programming) A function that retrieves a value, usually without changing any data.

• (function): getter

• (antonym(s) of “function”): mutator

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃes.sor/, [ätˈt͡ʃɛsːor]

accessor m (genitive accessōris); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) accessory

Third-declension noun.

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “accessor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• accessor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)