destructive read
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A read operation that inherently erases the data that was read, requiring it to be immediately written back to the storage medium to prevent loss of data.
Example Sentences
- "Although ferroelectric RAM has many advantages over conventional DRAM, it does share one of DRAM's disadvantages: as with DRAM, reading a FeRAM cell is a destructive read process which erases any data in the cell. When using FeRAM for persistent nonvolatile storage, this destructive-read nature can potentially result in data loss or corruption if power to the device is suddenly lost during a read operation."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
write-after-read
Frequently Paired Words
write-after-read