accessed

American  

[ak-sest] / ˈæk sɛst /

adjective

1. 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.

2. obtained or made use of.

   She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.

3. 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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of access.

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

But before she had begun to speak, the analysis of the budget’s impact on the economy and the public finances had been accessed using what the review described as a “predictable” internet address.

From The Wall Street Journal

The UK's official forecaster confirmed the market-sensitive report was accessed 43 times from 32 different computers in the hour before the chancellor's speech.

From BBC

It was first discovered as far back as 1931, but it wasn't until fracking became legal in Argentina in 2014 that the deposits could be commercially accessed.

From BBC

As far as the website you accessed is concerned, it can only see the VPN server’s IP address, so it cannot uniquely identify you.

From Salon

The second bedroom can only be accessed through the primary bedroom — “an efficient use of space” for a family of five, Baker said.

From Los Angeles Times