rewriteable

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Rewriteable describes storage media that can be erased and written to again: rewriteable CDs, rewriteable DVDs.

The term distinguishes such discs from write-once formats that permanently record data.

Also spelled rewritable, without the middle e.

adaptable

modifiable

Able to be changed

tailorable · configurable · reconfigurable · changeable · convertible · transformable · reshapable · tweakable · reworkable · evolvable

editable

erasable

Capable of removal

updateable · refinable · polishable · rectifiable · improvable · overwritable · redoable · emendable

Opposites
data modifiability

rewriteableread-only

Viewable but not changeable

write-protected · ROM · locked · uneditable · immutable

permanence

rewriteablepermanent

Fixed without end

indelible · irreversible · unchangeable · unalterable · etched

Family

write, writer, writing, written, rewrite, rephrase, reword, rewriting, rewrites

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