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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

write protect

The prevention of unintentionally overwriting data on backing store. This can be achieved either by hardware or software.

Related terms
deletebacking storereadsavewipe the diskwriteoverwriteread-onlyautosave
Term sub categories
Managing data › file operations
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