| Subject | German | English |
| microel. | beidseitig beschreibbare Diskette | double-sided floppy disk |
| comp. | beschreibbare Bildplatte | CD-R |
| comp. | beschreibbare Bildplatte | compact disk recordable |
| comp., MS | beschreibbare CD | compact disc-recordable (A type of CD-ROM that can be written (only once) on a CD recorder and read on a CD-ROM drive) |
| microel. | beschreibbare Fläche | recording area |
| comp., MS | beschreibbarer Abschnitt | writeable section (A data section in a module, such as a data section containing a module's global variables, that can be written to at run time) |
| IT, dat.proc. | beschreibbarer Auszeichnungsfehler | reportable markup error |
| comp., MS | beschreibbarer Datenträger | writeable disc (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| IT | beschreibbarer Speicher | writable storage device |
| automat. | beschreibbarer Steuerspeicher | writable control store |
| comp., MS | beschreibbares Medium | shiny media (A CD or DVD disc onto which files can be copied. Common writeable disc types include CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW) |
| microel. | direkt beschreibbare Fläche | directly accessible area |
| IT | durch Phasenänderung mehrfach beschreibbare optische Platte | rewritable optical phase disc |
| IT, earth.sc. | durch Phasenänderung mehrfach beschreibbare Platte | rewritable phase change disc |
| gen. | einmal beschreibbar | write-once |
| comp. | einmalig beschreibbare optische Spreicherplatte | WORM optical disk |
| comp. | einmalig beschreibbare optische Spreicherplatte | write-once read-many optical disk |
| gen. | mehrfach beschreibbar | write-many |
| IT | Speicherplatte, die nur einmal beschreibbar ist | write once read many |
| gen. | wieder beschreibbar | rewritable |