read-write From WikiWord, the free dictionary English Contents DefinitionsRelated wordsReferences DefinitionsadjectiveSupporting both read and write operations.“a read-write head in a disk drive” Related wordsSynonymsread-onlyreadingmultiwritemediaryoptimisticread-throughromabledirtybi-endianworawrite-what-wherewrite oncescatter/gatherbinary-compatiblestatefulparallel References Wiktionary — read-write Wikipedia — read-write