reachable

English

Etymology

From reach +‎ -able.

Adjective

reachable (comparative more reachable, superlative most reachable)

1. Within easy reach; accessible
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     Now, for the first time in the station's history, all 15 platforms are reachable from one central point.

   • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

     Kramatorsk is a smoky industrial city in Donbass, and a major railway junction. According to Google Travel, I can now reach Kramatorsk by rail from Hertfordshire (where I live) in just... 56 hours and 35 minutes. That highly hypothetical trip would entail 11 train changes. The important thing, however, is that the long-suffering city is again reachable by rail.

2. (mathematics) (of a node) That may be reached from another node in a graph by passing along one or more lines

Antonyms

• unreachable

Related terms

• reachability

Translations

within easy reach

• Dutch: bereikbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: atingebla
• French: accessible (fr), joignable (fr)
• German: erreichbar (de)
• Hungarian: elérhető (hu)
• Italian: accessibile (it), raggiungibile (it)
• Portuguese: acessível (pt), alcançável (pt), atingível (pt), realizável (pt), executável (pt), conquistável
• Spanish: alcanzable (es), disponible (es), factible (es), ejecutable (es), asequible (es), accesible (es), realizable
• Turkish: erişilir (tr), ulaşılır, yetişilir

Noun

reachable (plural reachables)

1. Someone or something that can be reached.

References

• “reachable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.