What does ARCHIVE mean?

Definitions for ARCHIVE
ˈɑr kaɪvar·chive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. archiveverb

    a depository containing historical records and documents

  2. archive, file awayverb

    put into an archive

Wiktionary

  1. archivenoun

    A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

  2. archivenoun

    The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).

    His archive of Old High German language texts is the most extensive in Britain.

  3. archiveverb

    To put into an archive.

    I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.

  4. Etymology: From archives, from archivum, from ἀρχεῖον.

Wikipedia

  1. Archive

    An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines of which many identical copies may exist. This means that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, although archival collections can often be found within library buildings.A person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information and materials in archives is called archival science. The physical place of storage can be referred to as an archive (more usual in the United Kingdom), an archives (more usual in the United States), or a repository.The computing use of the term "archive" should not be confused with the record-keeping meaning of the term.

ChatGPT

  1. archive

    An archive refers to a collection of historical records, documents, or materials that provide information about a person, place, event, or organization. It can also refer to the place where these materials are stored and preserved for future reference. In computing, it refers to a single file that contains multiple data files, often compressed to conserve space.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Archivenoun

    the place in which public records or historic documents are kept

  2. Archivenoun

    public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family

Wikidata

  1. Archive

    An archive is an accumulation of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism"—rather than those that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or magazines for which many identical copies exist. This means that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their functions and organization, although archival collections can often be found within library buildings. A person who works in archives is called an archivist. The study and practice of organizing, preserving, and providing access to information and materials in archives is called archival science. The physical place of storage is sometimes referred to as an archive repository.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARCHIVE' in Nouns Frequency: #2506

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARCHIVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARCHIVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of ARCHIVE in a Sentence

  1. Sam Seddon:

    What we are doing at Wimbledon is teaching Watson tennis, there is a data set at Wimbledon that sits in a huge structured database, then there is Wimbledon's huge historical archive. Watson can receive a question from Wimbledon's digital team in natural language, understand if it is a statistical question or a language question and then find the answer.

  2. Hossein Khanzadi:

    We observe all enemy ships, particularly (those of) America, point-by-point from their origin until the moment they enter the region, we have complete images and a large archive of the daily and moment-by-moment traffic of the coalition forces and America.

  3. Tristan Bréville:

    We worked to gift our country with the most exceptional photographic archive, it's the memory of our country.

  4. Rogerio Varga:

    There is no document in any archive that has been uncovered that places the institution of Volkswagen in collaboration with any violation of human rights.

  5. George Steiner:

    Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

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