Dictionary

recordable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English record Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English recordable From record + -able.

Meanings

1. That can be recorded; capturable.
   • User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.
   • Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.
2. (of a CD) Able to be used to record something.
3. Liable to be retained on someone's criminal record.
   • Marper, who was 38 years of age and of good character, was arrested and charged with harassment of his partner. The police took his fingerprints and DNA samples. His partner became reconciled with him and decided not to press the charges, and the case was formally discontinued. The police refused to destroy the fingerprints and samples. In both cases the police relied on the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, which allows the police to take and to retain indefinitely, without consent, fingerprints and DNA samples from a person of any age who has been arrested in connection with a “recordable” offence. 2009, Bob Hepple, “The Right to Privacy and Crime Detection”, in Cambridge Law Journal, volume 68, number 2, page 254:

Forms

Antonyms

erasable · unrecordable

Deriveds

irrecordable · rerecordable · nonrecordable

Relateds

rewritable

Translations (8)

de bespielbar (able to be used to record something) · el εγγράψιμο (able to be used to record something) · it registrabile (able to be used to record something) · fr enregistrable (able to be used to record something) · ja 収録できる (able to be used to record something) · ja 録れる (able to be used to record something) · pl nagrywalny (able to be used to record something) · ca gravable (able to be used to record something)