accessed

[ ak-sest ]

adjective

1. reached, contacted, entered, or visited:

   Lot 14 on Smoke Road is an easily accessed lot with great views, grass, and scattered trees.

   Your bibliography should include the URL of the accessed website.

2. obtained or made use of:

   She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.

3. Computers. (of data) retrieved for use by another program or application or for transfer from one part of a system to another:

   Data caching is a way of storing the most frequently accessed data in memory so it doesn’t need to be regenerated each time.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of access.

Other Words From

• un·ac·cessed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of accessed¹

First recorded in 1870–75; access ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; access ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

The service can now be accessed by the public 24 hours a day on its app.

From Los Angeles Times

In December last year, 23andMe confirmed that hackers had accessed details of about 6.9 million of its users.

From BBC

In some cases, it's people who are busy and disconnected, making them vulnerable to the pressures to give up real news in favor of an easily accessed and more pleasant diet of social media garbage.

From Salon

The court has not clarified if the book could be accessed in India but advised Mr Khan to pursue any legal options to obtain it.

From BBC

"I'm afraid because being accessed by the people we are running away from is a huge possibility," the refugee added.

From BBC