addressable
adjective
ad·dress·able
ə-ˈdre-sə-bəl 
1
: able to be addressed : directly accessible
addressable registers in a computer
2
: of or relating to a subscription television system that uses decoders addressable by the system operator
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While gaming continues to be a significant source of advertising demand, AppLovin is actively venturing into e-commerce, connected TV, and non-gaming applications, thereby expanding its addressable markets.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Crevoiserat is looking at the global handbag opportunity anew, defining the total addressable market not by how many people bought bags last year, but how many people could have.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
By their estimation, the serviceable addressable market (SAM) stands at about $2 trillion toward the end of the decade — that's about half of the total $3 trillion to $4 trillion in data center capital expenditures that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently predicted would occur by 2030.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
If successful, this broadens Nvidia’s total addressable market into logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, construction, retail, and autonomous systems—sectors that prize uptime and safety.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Crevoiserat is looking at the global handbag opportunity anew, defining the total addressable market not by how many people bought bags last year, but how many people could have.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
By their estimation, the serviceable addressable market (SAM) stands at about $2 trillion toward the end of the decade — that's about half of the total $3 trillion to $4 trillion in data center capital expenditures that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently predicted would occur by 2030.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
If successful, this broadens Nvidia’s total addressable market into logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, construction, retail, and autonomous systems—sectors that prize uptime and safety.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for addressable
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“Addressable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addressable. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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addressable
adjective
ad·dress·able
ə-ˈdres-ə-bəl
: able to be reached through an address
addressable registers in a computer
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