archival

About 1.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   archival boxes archival paper

3. noun The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; an instance of this.

   Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.

Similar words

archived archive file record-keeping documentary registry historical record recordkeeping historic

Often followed by

material sources materials research records and data documents collections purposes

Word family

archivally