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

She explained that ice close to the surface is especially valuable because it could be accessed more easily than deeply buried deposits.

From Science Daily

The Journal analysis is based on Medicare prescription records accessed under a research agreement with the federal government.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is a secret entrance to their giant complex, accessed by locking eyes with a statue in a library — it’s thematically appropriate, but also very “Get Smart!”

From Los Angeles Times

An internal investigation revealed a former employee accessed 33 million customer accounts but retained data from 3,000.

From Barron's

That is where people like Sim come in, according to U.S. officials, who as part of their investigations accessed Sim’s emails and a spreadsheet he kept listing transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal