log in
verbEtymology 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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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
- I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.
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To be placed at a certain ranking.
- Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209: