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3 definitions found 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: archive n : contains historical records and documents [syn: {archives}] v : put into an archive [syn: {file away}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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)
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