reachabilityn.
/ˌriːtʃəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˌritʃəˈbɪlᵻdi/ 1. The quality or fact of being (easily) reachable; accessibility.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible
accessibleness1667
approachableness1731
accessibility1734
come-at-ability1760
come-at-ableness1837
get-at-ability1839
approachability1851
get-at-ableness1860
reachability1925
1925 N.Y. Times 24 Sept. 42/4 Its social desirability, its accessibility and reachability are other factors that justify its description as the finest apartment building in New York City.
1970 Washington Post 6 Mar. k10/1 There's a mirage-like fragility about this Alpine village, a prick of doubt from a distance about its reachability.
2001 Guardian (Nexis) 31 May (Special Suppl.) 10 Reachability is so important today when our business focus is on improving levels of customer service.
2. Mathematics. The possibility of reaching one point of a graph from another.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > properties of
gradient1897
embed1922
embeddability1936
reachability1959
1959 Sociometry 22 141 We present a logical sequence of theorems that characterize strengthening and weakening group members... We..find it convenient to introduce the concept of the ‘reachability matrix’ of a group.
1965 F. Harary et al. Structural Models ii. 45 The difference between reachability and joining is that in the latter instance we ignore the direction of the lines.
2007 European Jrnl. Operational Res. 177 177 Many operations research problems can be defined using reachability between states, e.g., scheduling.., planning.., car-sequencing problems.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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