rewritable
Adjective
Meaning
rewritable (not comparable)
Able to be rewritten, or written again.
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Added sparing tables for defect management on rewritable media such as CD-RW, and DVD-RW and DVD+RW.
In some cases the memory that stores the microprogram is rewritable, making it possible to change the way in which the CPU decodes instructions.
MiniDiscs use rewritable magneto-optical storage to store the data.
For write-once media, the entire disk is virtualized, making the write-once nature transparent for the user; the disk can be treated the same way one would treat a rewritable disc.
Most rewritable and many write once optical disks already use phase change material to store information.