archival
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| —n | |
| 1. | a collection of records of or about an institution, family, etc |
| 2. | a place where such records are kept |
| 3. | computing data transferred to a tape or disk for long-term storage rather than frequent use |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to store (documents, data, etc) in an archive or other repository |
| [C17: from Late Latin archīvum, from Greek arkheion repository of official records, from arkhē government] | |
| ar'chival | |
| —adj | |
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Archival
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Example sentences
The university insures the center's archival holdings, as a whole, for a billion dollars.
Her archival research and attention to detail is exemplary.
Archival and new maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of the war.
Reading these and other new memoirs, old categories break down, and some of the archival statistics begin to look different too.
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