read-only

English

Etymology

From read +‎ only.

Adjective

read-only (not comparable)

1. (computing) Unalterable, capable of being read but not written.

Derived terms

• read-only access
• read-only memory

Related terms

• read-write
• write-only

Translations

capable of being read but not written

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 只讀／只读 (zh) (zhǐdú)

• Dutch: alleen-lezen
• Finnish: kirjoitussuojattu
• French: en lecture seule
• German: schreibgeschützt
• Icelandic: (reading) les-, (write-protected) ritvarinn m, skrifvarinn m
• Japanese: 読み込み専用 (yomikomi-sen'yō), 読み出し専用 (yomidashi-sen'yō), 読み取り専用 (yomitori-sen'yō)
• Spanish: de solo lectura
• Swedish: skrivskyddad (sv) c, skrivskyddat (sv) n
• Turkish: salt okunur, yalnız okunur
• Vietnamese: chỉ-đọc, chỉ đọc

References

• read-only on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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