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

The ruling comes after about two weeks of legal limbo around how the medication can be accessed.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Available scholarship funds can be accessed by logging on to the CalKIDS website.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Her symptoms can be accessed and recommendations made.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

The listing was not yet recruiting when accessed.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

And so while Lenore huddled with other employees filing police reports and requesting interviews with hospital workers, Dell excused himself and accessed the school district website.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan