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rewritable, a. Computing and Electronics.
Brit. |riːˈrʌɪtəbl|, U.S. |riˈraɪdəb(ə)l|
Forms: 19– rewritable, 19– rewriteable
[‹ rewrite v. + -able suffix, after writable adj.]
Of a data storage device or medium: capable of being overwritten with new data. Now: spec. designating a CD or DVD on which data can be written and subsequently erased and rewritten (also as postmodifier). Cf. write-once n. at write v. Additions
1971IBM Techn. Disclosure Bull. 14 263 (title) Rewritable igfet read-only store. 1981IEEE Internat. Solid-state Circuits Conf. Digest Papers (IEEE) 222 (title) A single-chip microcomputer with realtime rewritable nonvolatile data storage. 1991SunWorld Dec. 33/2 QStar's WORM, rewritable and multifunction optical drives and jukeboxes provide..the ability to read, write and access files exactly like magnetic disk. 1995Macworld Oct. 36/2 CD-Rewritable (CD-RW), an erasable CD format, won't be available for about two more years. 2000Which? June 25/1 CD recorders are becoming faster, although they're quicker if you use write-once disks, that you can record on just once, rather than rewriteable disks. 2004PC World (Electronic ed.) Dec. Get a DVD-rewritable drive. These drives have become remarkably inexpensive—and they write CD-RWs, too. |