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English Dictionary: Archive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Archive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
archive n a depository containing historical records and documents v put into an archive Synonym(s): archive, file away
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)