ETYM French archives, pl., Latin archivum, archium, from Greek, government house, archives, from archos the first place, government.
Contains historical records and documents; SYN. archives.
Collection of historically valuable records, ranging from papers and documents to photographs, films, videotapes, and sound recordings.
The National Archives Hall in Washington, DC contains the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The National Archives and Records Service is responsible for preserving federal records and for administration of the presidential libraries, usually established in the incumbent’s birthplace.

ETYM French chancellerie, Late Lat. cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius. Related to Chancellor, Chancellery.
1. A court with jurisdiction in equity; SYN. court of chancery.
2. An office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records.
Church office dealing with legal matters and archives.

1. A tape or disk containing files copied from another storage device and used as backup storage.
2. A compressed file.
3. A file directory on the Internet that is available by File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or an Internet directory established for dissemination of stored files.

A file that contains a set of files, such as a program with its documentation and example input files, or collected postings from a newsgroup. On UNIX systems, archive files can be created using the tar program; they can then be compressed using compress or gzip. PKZIP under MS-DOS and Windows and StuffIt under Mac OS create archive files that are already compressed. See also compress1, gzip, PKZIP, StuffIt, tar1.

Recess for church vessels; cupboard or niche; niche containing sacred vessels in chancel.
1. dialect chiefly British; pantry
2. A recess in a church wall (as for holding sacramental vessels)

ETYM French archives, pl., Latin archivum, archium, from Greek, government house, archives, from archos the first place, government.
Contains historical records and documents; SYN. archives.
Collection of historically valuable records, ranging from papers and documents to photographs, films, videotapes, and sound recordings.
The National Archives Hall in Washington, DC contains the original Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The National Archives and Records Service is responsible for preserving federal records and for administration of the presidential libraries, usually established in the incumbent’s birthplace.

Collection of records especially about an institution.
Public records; place where such are kept.

(Homonym: phial).
1. A container for keeping papers in order; SYN. file cabinet, filing cabinet.
2. A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other; SYN. single file, Indian file.
3. A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together; SYN. data file.
4. A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.

ETYM French archiviste.
A person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives.

The MS-DOS file extension used with archive files created with the ARJ compression program.

A file extension that identifies a compressed archive file encoded in ZIP format, as by PKZIP. See also compressed file, PKZIP.
A DIP package that has all leads on one edge in a zigzag pattern and mounts in a vertical plane.

Cartulary.

To put into an archive; SYN. file away.

ETYM French archiviste.
A person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives.