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
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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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However, researchers from UK Cyber Defence have identified more than 800 refrigeration and building-control interfaces associated with British retailers that can be accessed over the public internet.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Information related to investigations doesn’t appear to have been accessed and the breach isn’t related to the Binance incident, Chainalysis said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
The CFAA, for instance, has a provision for “reckless damage”—but it still requires a human to have intentionally accessed a computer without permission in the first place.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
The Journal’s analysis relied on detailed Medicaid billing records that reporters accessed under a research agreement with the federal government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The process was akin to a library of rare books that is accessed for translation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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