Topic: COMPUTERS
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| Date: | 1600-1700 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | Latin archivum, from Greek archeion 'government building' (in plural, 'official documents'), from arche 'rule, government' |
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ar‧chive1
[countable]
[countable]1 a place where a large number of historical records are stored, or the records that are stored : an archive of the writer's unpublished work
an archive of the writer's unpublished work2TD technical copies of a computer's files that are stored on a disk or in the computer's memory in a way that uses less space than usual, so that the computer can keep them for a long time
—archive adjective: interesting archive material
interesting archive material —archival adjective: archival footage of the President's visit in 1969
adjective: archival footage of the President's visit in 1969