meaning of archive

1. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
2. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
3. archive 1. format> 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. system> 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.
4. a depository containing historical records and documents

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