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

See Examples For:

addressable

Those moves have expanded Levi’s total addressable market, boosting its growth and profitability, Gass said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

That’s what accounts for almost all of the $28.5 trillion “total addressable market” the company claims for its services, never mind that it’s a distant also-ran in the AI business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

BofA projects server CPU sales north of $40 billion at that point, or roughly a quarter of the total addressable market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

The company has outlined a near-term total addressable market of $5.7 trillion, attributing just $370 billion to space-enabled solutions.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 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.