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

At the same time, it must remain flexible enough to allow certain genes to be accessed while others stay inactive.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Fortune accessed the confidential files after an error in Anthropic’s content-management system left a draft blog post and nearly 3,000 internal assets in a publicly searchable data cache.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

The app’s settings are accessed by clicking the Menu icon at the top right of the app and choosing Preferences.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

It said it had no current reports of data having been accessed.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Then the big beach, accessed by another wooden staircase.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart