ACCESSIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accessibility mean? 

• ACCESSIBILITY (noun)
  The noun ACCESSIBILITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being at hand when needed

2. the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with

  Familiarity information: ACCESSIBILITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCESSIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being at hand when needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness

Hypernyms ("accessibility" is a kind of...):

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Attribute:

accessible (capable of being reached)

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

unavailable (not available or accessible or at hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accessibility"):

command (availability for use)

print (availability in printed form)

Antonym:

inaccessibility (the quality of not being available when needed)

Derivation:

accessible (easily obtained)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The attribute of being easy to meet or deal with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accessibility; approachability

Hypernyms ("accessibility" is a kind of...):

friendliness (a friendly disposition)

Derivation:

accessible (easy to get along with or talk to; friendly)

 Context examples 

HMG2 is an acidic chromatin-associated protein that bends DNA, alters chromatin structure and alters the accessibility of genes for transcription.

(Granzyme A Mediated Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It is also a component of the ATP-utilizing chromatin assembly and remodeling factor ACF and of the chromatin accessibility complex CHRAC.

(ISWI, NCI Thesaurus)

These areas have high potential yields, low production costs, high prices for the produce and have market accessibility to trade centres such as cities.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

These proteins act to remodel chromatin by altering the accessibility of DNA to factors required for gene transcription.

(Chromatin Remodeling Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

The Drosophila gene Chrac-14 encodes a component of the chromatin accessibility complex.

(CHRAC, NCI Thesaurus)

It employs or contracts with an organized system of providers that delivers services, manages the costs of healthcare services, as well as accessibility and quality of care for its enrolled members, and frequently shares financial risk.

(Managed Healthcare Plan, NCI Thesaurus)

Advantages of this topical route include direct, localized delivery to the target tissue, good accessibility into the intraocular environment owing to membrane permeability and large intercellular spaces, avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism, convenience, and relative painlessness.

(Conjunctival Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Nursing Health Policy Specialists are Registered Nurses academically prepared at the graduate level who analyze, evaluate, and propose public and institutional policy that affects health care availability, accessibility, and delivery within a given population, region, or facility.

(Nurse Specialist in Health and Public Policy, NCI Thesaurus)

The Drosophila gene Chrac-16 also encodes a component of the chromatin accessibility complex.

(CHRAC, NCI Thesaurus)