accessible
Americanadjective
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easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
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able to be used, entered, reached, etc..
an accessible road; accessible Mayan ruins.
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suitable for disabled people to reach, enter, or use, as a result of design modifications: modified controllers to make video games accessible.
wheelchair-accessible vans;
modified controllers to make video games accessible.
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readily understandable.
Students may believe that poetry is not accessible because of its metaphorical language.
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obtainable; attainable.
accessible evidence.
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open to the influence of (usually followed byto ).
accessible to bribery.
adjective
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easy to approach, enter, use, or understand
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likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
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obtainable; available
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easy for disabled people to enter or use
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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
Other Word Forms
- accessibility noun
- accessibly adverb
- nonaccessible adjective
- preaccessible adjective
- unaccessible adjective
- unaccessibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of accessible
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, Middle French, from Late Latin accessibilis; access, -ible
Example Sentences
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According to Zhou, this approach is accessible, easier to manage, and may cause fewer side effects than some existing therapies.
From Science Daily
This approach looks at how DNA is packaged inside each cell, revealing which regions of the genome are accessible and active, a key indicator of a cell's state and function.
From Science Daily
Researchers are encouraged by this because the outward-facing form of MurJ is exposed to the surrounding environment, which could make it more accessible to future drugs than a conformation that faces inward.
From Science Daily
A large part of the appeal of micro-dramas is seeing and interacting with real actors, she said, because the actors are often unknown and, therefore, accessible on social media.
From BBC
And it isn’t entirely accessible as it is largely dominated by the world’s biggest investors.
From Barron's
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