Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of recording data. Used of a storage medium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being written; such as might be set down in writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective capable of being
written - adjective computing able to be written data to, usually a file or medium
Etymologies
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Examples
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Floppies died because superior portable storage media came out - namely writable CDs.
The Tao of Mac Rui Carmo 2010
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A Heavy attack will additionally search for several other known vulnerabilities, such as writable anonymous ftp directories or trusted hosts.
The Last Days of Hong Kong Buruma, Ian 1990
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You have to make the mount point directory 'writable'.
Comments for The Smorgasbord John Sheridan 2010
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The software on the IronKey is non-writable, meaning that the device itself cannot be infected with malware.
Computerworld News 2010
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The software on the IronKey is non-writable, meaning that the device itself cannot be infected with malware.
Computerworld News 2010
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You have to make the mount point directory 'writable'.
Comments for The Smorgasbord John Sheridan 2010
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The software on the IronKey is non-writable, meaning that the device itself cannot be infected with malware.
Computerworld News 2010
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Evaluate your activities • Keep accurate records of all incidents that occur • Scan and maintain records on removable media such as writable CD's
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After detecting the rootfs partition the system tries to generate "rootfs_data" where some kind of writable unionfs of the rootfs will be mounted.
OpenWrt : News 2008
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After detecting the rootfs partition the system tries to generate "rootfs_data" where some kind of writable unionfs of the rootfs will be mounted.
OpenWrt : News 2008
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