write-protect

[ rahyt-pruh-tekt ]

verb (used with object)Computers.
  1. to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.

Other words from write-protect

  • write protection, noun

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