erasable
/i'reizəbl/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of being removed or deleted: Describes something that can be erased, wiped away, or eliminated, especially markings, data, or impressions.
- Not permanent; able to be corrected or undone: Implies a quality of impermanence, allowing for changes or corrections.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The teacher used an erasable pen to make notes on the student's draft.
- This is erasable ink, so you can correct any mistakes easily.
- The data on the old floppy disk is still erasable.
Advanced Usage
- "Erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM)": A type of computer memory chip that can be erased by exposure to ultraviolet light and reprogrammed.
- The firmware was stored on an erasable EPROM chip.
Variants and Related Words
- Erase (verb): To rub out, remove, or delete.
- Please erase the whiteboard after class.
- Eraser (noun): An object, like a piece of rubber or a software tool, used to erase something.
- I need a new eraser for my pencil.
- Erasability (noun): The quality of being erasable.
- The erasability of the marker depends on the surface.
Synonyms
- Effaceable: Capable of being wiped out or obliterated.
- Removable: Able to be taken off or away.
- Deletable: Capable of being removed, especially from a digital record.
Antonyms
- Permanent: Lasting or intended to last indefinitely without change.
- Indelible: Making marks that cannot be removed.
- Ineradicable: Impossible to erase or remove.
Related Phrases
- Erasable medium: A physical surface or digital storage that allows data to be erased.
- A whiteboard is an erasable medium.
- Erasable bond paper: A type of paper designed for use with erasable ink or pencils.
- For the draft, please use erasable bond paper.
Adjective
- capable of being effaced
- the fire's worst scars were effaceable by a comprehensive program of reforestation
- a signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head