read-only

[reed-ohn-lee]

adjective Computers.

of or relating to files or memory that can be read but cannot normally be changed.

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Contemporary Examples of read-only

It was just what Berners-Lee had envisioned, a Web that was read-write rather than read-only.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story
Walter Isaacson
October 19, 2014