addressable

American  

[uh-dres-uh-buhl] / əˈdrɛs ə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being addressed.

2. Television. (of a cable-TV system) capable of addressing or calling up any available channel.

3. Computers. (of stored information) capable of being accessed.

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addressable British  

/ əˈdrɛsəbəl /

adjective

1. computing possessing or capable of being reached by an address

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Other Word Forms

• addressability
  noun

Etymology

Origin of addressable

First recorded in 1950–55; address + -able

Example Sentences

SpaceX’s recent S-1 filing promoted an “actionable total addressable market” of $28.5 trillion, which includes $23 trillion from enterprise artificial-intelligence applications.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

And the dense paperwork included an out-of-this-world projected total addressable market for SpaceX at $28.5 trillion, just a few trillion dollars shy of the entire U.S. gross domestic product.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The AI business, SpaceX says in its IPO prospectus, has a total addressable market of $26.5 trillion, nearly as large as the entire U.S. gross domestic product of $31.9 trillion.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

SpaceX also described what it called the “the largest actionable total addressable market” in human history, totaling $28.5 trillion, in the first paragraph on Page 11 of the filing.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

The assumption that bits and addressable units within an object      are ordered in the same way and that this order is a constant of      nature.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.