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📀 Can store data 📑 Officially entered 💾 Able to save
recordable

recordable

3.9
Can be saved for later use or review
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈkɔrdəbl/
translation icon : grabable
  • Through blogs or shareable, real-time platforms, an organization can avoid the time and expense of at least some travel and face-to-face meetings and supply a context-rich, engaging, and recordable experience.

Examples

  • He purchased a recordable DVD to save his favorite movies.

  • The lecture was recorded on a recordable device for students to review later.

  • I just never really expected it from a recordable publication like yours.

    Daughters of Wisdom (2007)

  • Sony was trying to sell the world on the idea of recordable digital media in minidisks, but Apple's iPod was so much better; it killed off the other digital music player types, and today most portable music players are MP3 players.

    Blog text (8)

  • Many smartphones have recordable features that allow users to capture videos instantly.

Synonyms

storable
vsrecordable
  • Specialized
3.4

Can be saved on a phone or computer for later use

is broader, including being captured or kept for later review
saveable
vsrecordable
2.7

Something you can keep and use again later

focuses also on being captured for later review rather than only preserved

Antonyms

unrecordable
7.1

Not able to be saved so it can be heard or read later

Compounds

compact disc recordable
  • Specialized
4.2

A disc you can write on once and then only read

How Recordable

recordable
3.9

Surface Forms

recordable positive

Morphology

recordable = record (transparent) = record + able

Formed by the productive suffix '-able' attached to the verb 'record', giving the clear meaning 'able to be recorded'.

Etymology

Recordable comes from the verb record and the ending -able, where -able means 'can'. The verb record is from the parts re- 'again' and cor 'heart', originally meaning to 'bring back to the heart' or 'remember', and so recordable means 'can be saved or kept to look at or listen to later'.