Theadjective is derived fromarchive(“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).[1]
Thenoun is derived fromarchive(“to put (something) in an archive”,verb) +-al(suffix forming nouns, especially ofverbal action).
archival (notcomparable)
- Of or pertaining to anarchive orarchiving.
2021 March 24, Joseph Brennan, “Metallic Marvels from Rail’s Iron Age”, inRail, number927, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire:Bauer Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, page59:Inarchival 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.
- Of amaterial:having aqualitysuited to theconservationalneeds of archiving.
archival boxes archival paper
of or pertaining to an archive or archiving
of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving
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archival (countable anduncountable,pluralarchivals)
- (uncountable) Thepractice ofstoringitems in anarchive;archiving;(countable) aninstance of this.
- Synonyms:(rare)archivation,(rare)archivization
Our nightly computer backups include thearchival of old e-mail messages.
practice of storing items in an archive; an instance of this
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