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ar·chive

   [ahr-kahyv]
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archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.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.
4.
Digital Technology.
a.
a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future reference.
b.
a collection of digital data stored in this way.
c.
a computer file containing one or more compressed files.
d.
a collection of information permanently stored on the Internet: The magazine has its entire archive online, from 1923 to the present.
verb (used with object) ar·chived, ar·chiv·ing.
5.
to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.
6.
Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file.

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Origin:
1595–1605; orig., as plural < French archives < Latin archī(v)a < Greek archeîa, orig. plural of archeîon public office, equivalent to arch(ḗ) magistracy, office + -eion suffix of place
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  • The archive reveals a good deal about the author's working habits.
  • Each archive will cater to a specific scientific discipline.
  • Google is stopping the scanners on its ambitious project to build an archive of the world's newspapers.
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archive (ˈɑːkaɪv)
 
—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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archive
1934, from archives (q.v.).
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archive definition


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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