accessible

accessible (əkˈsɛsəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	easy to approach, enter, use, or understand
2.	accessible to likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
3.	obtainable; available
4.	easy for disabled people to enter or use
5.	logic (of a possible world) surveyable from some other world so that the truth value of statements about it can be known. A statement possibly p is true in a world W if and only if p is true in some worlds accessible to W

accessi'bility

—n

ac'cessibly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

accessible

c.1600, "affording access," from Fr. accessible, from L. accessus, from pp. stem of accedere (see access). Meaning "easy to reach" is from 1640s; Of art or writing, "able to be readily understood," 1961 (a term not needed in the years before writing or art often deliberately was made not so).

Example sentences

Kudos to the author for highlighting a fascinating topic that is open access

and accessible by the general taxpaying public.

In 1840, a train connected the city to London, making the beach accessible to

the masses for the first time.

The book is accessible and actionable, with its signature, crisp design and

lively text.

Whimsical and accessible, the writer-illustrator team presents complex ideas

with their characteristic verve.

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Matching Quote

"The automobile and the telephone are defeated as instruments of individualism by being applied to the needs of a mass society. The automobile fulfills man's desire to move over the surface of the earth all by himself; but by becoming accessible to everybody, automobiles have paralyzed our streets. Individualism is possible only in plenty of empty space. Similarly, telephones block their own paths of individual communication when everybody is talking: the phone is too often "busy." Private enterprise cannot but strangle itself."

-Rudolf Arnheim