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archival.

Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɑːkɪv(ə)l/Received-Pronunciation/ˌɑɹˈkaɪv(ə)l/General-American

  1. Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.

    not-comparable

  2. Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.

    not-comparable
    archival boxes    archival paper
Where this word comes from

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).

noun/ɑːˈkaɪv(ə)l/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɑːkɪv(ə)l/Received-Pronunciation/ˌɑɹˈkaɪv(ə)l/General-American

  1. The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.

    uncountable
    Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.
Where this word comes from

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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