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ar·chive

Audio Help [ahr-kahyv] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -chived, -chiv·ing.

–noun

1.	Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.

2.	archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.

3.	any extensive record or collection of data: The encyclopedia is an archive of world history. The experience was sealed in the archive of her memory.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.

[Origin: 1595–1605; orig., as pl. < F archives < L archī(v)a < Gk archeǐa, orig. pl. of archeǐon public office, equiv. to arch() magistracy, office + -eion suffix of place

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ar·chive Audio Help (är'kīv') Pronunciation Key
n.

A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest. Often used in the plural: old land deeds in the municipal archives.
Computer Science
1. A long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use.
2. A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer.
A repository for stored memories or information: the archive of the mind.

tr.v. ar·chived, ar·chiv·ing, ar·chives

To place or store in an archive.
Computer Science To copy or compress (a file) into an archive.

[From French archives, from Latin archīva, from Greek arkheia, pl. of arkheion, town hall, from arkhē, government, from arkhein, to rule.]

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archive
noun
1.	a depository containing historical records and documents
verb
1.	put into an archive

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archive
1. A single file containing one or (usually) more separate files plus information to allow them to be extracted (separated) by a suitable program.
Archives are usually created for software distribution or backup. tar is a common format for Unix archives, and arc or PKZIP for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
2. To transfer files to slower, cheaper media (usually magnetic tape) to free the hard disk space they occupied. This is now normally done for long-term storage but in the 1960s, when disk was much more expensive, files were often shuffled regularly between disk and tape.
3. archive site.
(1996-12-08)

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Archive

Ar"chive\, n.; pl. Archives. [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. ? government house, ? ? archives, fr. ? the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.]

1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. --Gov. of Tongue.

2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.]

Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. --Lamb.

Syn: Registers; records; chronicles.

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