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ACCESSIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being reached
Example:
a town accessible by rail
Classified under:
Similar:
approachable; reachable (easily approached)
come-at-able; get-at-able; getatable (capable of being reached or attained)
handy; ready to hand (easy to reach)
Also:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
Attribute:
accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness (the quality of being at hand when needed)
Antonym:
inaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)
Derivation:
access (reach or gain access to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Easy to get along with or talk to; friendly
Example:
an accessible and genial man
Classified under:
Similar:
approachable (easy to meet or converse or do business with)
Derivation:
accessibility (the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Easily obtained
Example:
accessible money
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)
Derivation:
accessibility (the quality of being at hand when needed)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Capable of being read with comprehension
Example:
the tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels
Synonyms:
accessible; approachable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
comprehendible; comprehensible (capable of being comprehended or understood)
Context examples:
Specifies whether or not the medical device is accessible for assessment by the manufacturer.
(Device Available For Evaluation Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
Chromosome regions that are loosely packaged and more accessible to RNA polymerases than HETEROCHROMATIN.
(Euchromatin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Recruitment of CARM1 to the promoter region by binding to coactivators increases histone methylation and makes promoter regions more accessible for transcription.
(CARM1 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Through the Cancer Molecular Analysis Project (CMAP), NCI facilitates the identification and evaluation of molecular targets by integrating comprehensive molecular characterizations of cancer and making the data and infrastructure publicly accessible.
(Cancer Molecular Analysis Project, NCI Thesaurus)
The quality of being obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service.
(Availability, NCI Thesaurus)
Specifies whether or not an entity is accessible for assessment or testing.
(Available For Evaluation Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
B-DNA is about 20 Angstrom in diameter and a right-handed double helix with a wide major groove easily accessible to proteins and narrow minor groove.
(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)
This NADH comes primarily from the Krebs cycle in the mitochondrial matrix and is therefore directly accessible to electron transport.
(Malate-Aspartate Shuttle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
They also may make frozen water more accessible than previously thought to future robotic or human exploration missions.
(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)
"But shorter wavelengths of light are often desirable at those same deep areas. We have designed a system that can deliver visible laser light at penetration depths accessible to longer wavelengths."
(Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues, National Science Foundation)
