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

“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

Meta has said glasses are likely to be the new dominant form factor for non-smartphone AI devices, in part because of what the company believes is a large addressable market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

SpaceX envisions a total addressable market of about $28.5 trillion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 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

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 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond