read-only

adjective

computers

: capable of being viewed but not of being changed or deleted

a read-only file/document

Examples of read-only in a Sentence

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Now a new generation of devices is trying to do something the read-only wearable never could, talk back to the body. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

Additionally, look for apps with two-factor authentication and grant financial institutions read-only access. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 June 2026

Restricting agents to read-only access does not work because the most useful agentic work requires write access and businesses will accept the risk to capture the productivity. — Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

How to Describe the World with a Computer The computer onboard Apollo 11’s lunar module had about a mere 74 kilobytes of storage in the form of read-only memory (ROM). — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026

Rhymes for read-only

• wanly