writable

Capable of being written.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being written.
    • Are sign languages writable?
  2. Capable of being written to.
    • The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
    • I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD.
    • The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy. - 2013, Patrick Alessi, Professional iOS Database Application Programming:
  3. mutable
    • In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared. - 2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill M. Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language:

Origin

Etymology tree English write Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English writable From write + -able.

Forms

more writable most writable writeable

Antonyms

read-only

Related

readable