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rewritability

noun

Etymology

From rewrite + -ability.

  1. derived from *wrey-✻ — “to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *wrītaną✻ — “to carve, write”
  3. inherited from *wrītan✻
  4. inherited from wrītan
  5. inherited from writen
  6. prefixed as rewrite — “re + write”
  7. suffixed as rewritability — “rewrite + ability”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being rewritable.

    • This is different from the rewritability of DVD-RW and is closer in function to a "removable hard drive" than to an optical disc.
    • The apparent challenges in these methods are the durability of the writings, the toxicity of the inks and the rewritability of the papers.
    • RFID architecture and the capacity and rewritability of memory, which can range from a few bits up to hundreds of kilobytes and can be either Read Only, Write Once & Read Only and Read & Write.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rewritability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA