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Writable vs Writability - What's the difference?

writable | writability |

As an adjective writable

is capable of being written.

As a noun writability is

the state or condition of being writable.

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

    writability

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being writable.

    • Alternative forms

    * writeability