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

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addressable

In securities filings, SpaceX estimated that the total addressable market for the business was $28.5 trillion, with the market opportunity for AI to be around $26.5 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

As for the Neo, Luria told MarketWatch that Apple saw “a need to expand its addressable market and engage with younger consumers that were defaulting into Chromebooks and low-end PCs.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026

“We’re entertaining an audience approaching a billion people with still lots of room to grow into our addressable market on every measure,” said Spencer Neumann, Netflix’s chief financial officer, in the earnings presentation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Though exact timing is still uncertain, “we think IBM is well positioned as a quantum leader” for its share of a meaningful total addressable market, Essex wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Today, a terminal with merely an addressable cursor, but with none of the more-powerful features mentioned in sense 1, is called a dumb terminal.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele