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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.

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Other Words From

  • un·ac·cessed adjective

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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

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Example Sentences

Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders cannot be accessed without a virtual private network.

Mostly, I accessed my account from the small screen of my phone, following world leaders, writers, and others I admire.

The full name of the passenger, Hourdajian told The Daily Beast, can be accessed from within the Uber app by the driver.

He suggested that changes should be considered only about how it is stored and how it is accessed.

The agency's audit concluded that the Senate staffers using the database had accessed documents they were not authorized to see.

These are marked by light underlining and a title attribute which can be accessed by hovering with the mouse.

High-resolution images can be accessed by clicking on the images in the text.

Higher resolution versions of the star maps and lunar charts may be accessed by clicking on the images in the text.

However, a transliteration is provided in a title attribute which can be accessed by hovering with the mouse.

The second set of footnotes, used for commentary on the text, is accessed through hyperlinks in this document.

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