ACCESSED Definition & Meaning

accessed

[ak-sest]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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.
obtained or made use of.
She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.
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

the simple past tense and past participle of access.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

unaccessed adjective

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51�Թ� 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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The federal fingerprint database can be accessed only for patients who are dying or are the subject of a police investigation, hospital staff said.

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That person could easily have accessed an internal list of top-selling brokers, the employee said.

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The framework by which abortion is accessed would remain the same.

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The site sits at about 5,000 feet and is typically closed until later in the summer when snow in the area has melted enough for the campground to be safely accessed.

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Investigators said they believed Mr Banta, who worked in IT at the US Department of Justice, later accessed his phone remotely and performed a "reset".

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access course accessibility

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