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archival

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/
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/ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/ · /ˈɑːkɪv(ə)l/ · /ˌɑɹˈkaɪv(ə)l/

Definition of archival

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
    “In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
    “In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.”
  2. (not-comparable)Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.
    “archival boxes    archival paper”

noun

  1. (uncountable)The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.
    “Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.”

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Etymology

The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).

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