ALL meanings of archiving
ar·chive
A a - noun archiving Present participle of archive. 1
- noun archiving Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation. 1
- noun archiving archives, a place where public records or other historical documents are kept. 1
- noun archiving any extensive record or collection of data: The encyclopedia is an archive of world history. The experience was sealed in the archive of her memory. 1
- noun archiving Digital Technology. 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. a collection of digital data stored in this way. a computer file containing one or more compressed files. a collection of information permanently stored on the Internet: The magazine has its entire archive online, from 1923 to the present. 1
- verb with object archiving to place or store in an archive: to vote on archiving the city's historic documents. 1
- verb with object archiving Digital Technology. to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file. 1