The Collaborative International Dictionary
Writable
Writable \Writ"a*ble\, a. Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.
Wiktionary
writable
a. 1 Capable of being written. 2 (context computing of a file, storage device, etc. English) Capable of being written to. 3 (context programming English) mutable
Usage examples of "writable".
The program had a number of familiar commands, and some that were new: it set permissions on the log files to unwritable, deleted the last line of the log file, engaged all diagnostic programs, updated size and hash information on all alarms, copied her executive file over the old one, altered the dates of creation and modification on her new file to those of the old one, then ended all diagnostic programs and reset permissions on the log files to writable.