recordable

From record +‎ -able.

recordable (comparative more recordable, superlative most recordable)

1. That can be recorded; capturable.

   Antonyms: erasable, unrecordable

   Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.

   User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.

2. (of a CD, DVD etc) Able to be used to record something.
3. Liable to be retained on someone's criminal record.
   • 2009, Bob Hepple, “The Right to Privacy and Crime Detection”, in Cambridge Law Journal, volume 68, number 2, page 254:

     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.

• rewritable

recordable m or f (masculine and feminine plural recordables)

1. memorable

• “recordable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025