Sentence examples for rewritable from inspiring English sources
The word "rewritable" is correct in written English
It is used to describe something that can be written over or modified, such as a rewritable CD or a digital document. Example: "I saved the document on a rewritable USB drive so I can update it later."
adjective
Able to be rewritten, or written again.
EPROM (erasable programmable ROM), EAROM (electrically alterable ROM), and flash memory are types of nonvolatile memories that are rewritable, though the rewriting is far more time-consuming than reading.
Forrester's Eric Schmitt says that users are likely to spend whatever money they have left over on something that makes a difference, such as a snazzy flat-panel screen or a rewritable CD-ROM drive.By the time firms get around to replacing the PCs they have bought in the past 12 months, corporate computing will have been transformed.
Demand is growing for processors that are not just made for a single purpose but can be reconfigured with a special programming tool, a bit like rewritable DVDs.
Toggling back and forth between the two states electrically allows bits of information to be stored far closer together than is possible with the optical methods used for rewritable DVDs.In terms of resilience, an "ovonics unified memory" (OUM) promises to be vastly better than any other memory chip.
In collaboration with Ovonyx of Santa Clara, California, Intel wants to take advantage of the chalcogenide alloys (mixtures of germanium, tin and tungsten) used to coat rewritable DVDs and CDs.The great thing about chalcogenides is that they have two states: a crystalline phase which conducts electricity, and an amorphous, disordered phase which works like an insulator.
A rewritable version based on excitable crystals and known as CD-RW was introduced in the mid-1990s.
CD-RW (CD-rewritable) disks can be re-recorded.
What's interesting about the 7000 series is that HP has included both a CD-ROM drive and a CD-rewritable drive on these relatively low-cost machines that allow people to copy CD's from one drive to another without pausing to open the CD carousel -- one more sign that the digital music consumer is foremost in everyone's minds these days.
Most CD-rewritable drives copy data at a ratio of about eight to one, meaning that they can record about 60 minutes of music (or 545 megabytes of data) onto a compact disc in about 7 1/2 minutes.
Mr. Jobs said some of the revenue drop was a result or "Apple specific" issues, including loss of share in the education market, failure to introduce quickly computers with faster processors and CD-rewritable drives, and disappointing sales of the PowerMac G4 Cube.
At the high end is the Pavilion 8860 which, for $1,249, it comes with an AMD Athlon 1GHz chip, 128MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, a CD-rewritable drive and a DVD drive.
