<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Usually archives.</li><li>documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.</li><li>a place where public records or other historical documents are kept.</li><li>any extensive record or collection of data: The encyclopedia is an archive of world history.</li><li>the part of her memory sealed in the archive.</li><li>a long-term storage device, as a disk or magnetic tape, or a computer directory or folder that contains copies of files for backup or future reference.</li><li>a collection of digital data stored in this way.</li><li>a computer file containing one or more compressed files.</li><li>a collection of information permanently stored on the internet: The magazine has its entire archive online, from 1923 to the present.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) archived, archiving.</li><li>to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents.</li><li>Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>