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Editable vs Writable - What's the difference?

editable | writable |

As adjectives the difference between editable and writable

is that editable is capable of being edited while writable is capable of being written.

editable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being edited.
    • This page is editable by anyone.

    Antonyms

    * uneditable

    writable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being written.
    • Are sign languages writable ?
  • Capable of being written to.
    • The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
    I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD.
  • * 2013 , Patrick Alessi, Professional iOS Database Application Programming
    • The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy.
  • (programming) mutable
  • * 2009 , Randi J. Rost, ?Bill M. Licea-Kane, ?Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language
    • In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.

    Antonyms

    * (computing) read-only

    Alternative spellings

    * writeable English autological terms