accessed
Americanadjective
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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.
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obtained or made use of.
She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.
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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
Other Word Forms
- unaccessed adjective
Etymology
Origin of accessed
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
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Treebaun changed the screen to a diagram of Ford’s Theatre and did a quick overview of all the ways the top balcony could have been accessed before turning on my repercussion track.
From Literature
Counsel for Nottingham City Council added staff from the authority who also accessed information about the case did so out of "misplaced professional curiosity and concerns given the nature of the events".
From BBC
At Binance, investigators last year also uncovered 2,000 accounts that had been accessed from Iran using software that masks users’ locations.
Easy, recurring savings can often be accessed by switching cell phone or internet plans or insurance companies, or by refinancing a car loan, he said.
From MarketWatch
Most small and intermediate-size companies can be accessed only through exorbitant fees such as the “2 and 20” for venture funds and the multilayer fees for funds of funds.
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