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accessible

[ak-ses-uh-buhl, ik-]

adjective

  1. easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.

  2. able to be used, entered, reached, etc..

    an accessible road; accessible Mayan ruins.

  3. 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.

  4. readily understandable.

    Students may believe that poetry is not accessible because of its metaphorical language.

  5. obtainable; attainable.

    accessible evidence.

  6. open to the influence of (usually followed byto ).

    accessible to bribery.



accessible

/ ə°ģˈ²õɛ²õə²śÉ™±ō /

adjective

  1. easy to approach, enter, use, or understand

  2. 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

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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • accessibility noun
  • accessibly adverb
  • nonaccessible adjective
  • preaccessible adjective
  • unaccessible adjective
  • unaccessibly adverb
  • ²¹³¦ĖŒ³¦±š²õ²õ¾±Ėˆ²ś¾±±ō¾±³Ł²ā noun
  • ²¹³¦Ėˆ³¦±š²õ²õ¾±²ś±ō²ā adverb
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of accessible1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, Middle French, from Late Latin accessibilis; access, -ible
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They were accessible, friendly and could always be depended on for a quick, good-enough story.

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Still, city leaders face enormous pressure to ensure that streets and sidewalks are safe and accessible for the millions of people expected to visit L.A. during the Games.

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Barnaby wants to see more grassroots investment in state schools and public parks to make the sport more accessible.

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It also published video of the small entrance to the tunnel, accessible through freshly dug earth just in front of the European Hospital.

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Government lawyers argued that families who wished to opt out of "the system of universally accessible, state-funded education" were free to send their children to private school or to educate them at home.

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