The keeping of archives.

A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.

(transitive) To put (something) into an archive.

plural of archive

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of archive

present participle of archive

simple past tense and past participle of archive

Having been placed into an archive.

Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving. / Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.

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