(一般作archives)
1- a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people（地域、机构或人的）历史档案：
source materials in local archives
当地档案中的原始资料
as modifier a section of archive film.档案电影集。
1.1
- the place where such documents or records are kept档案室, 档案馆：
they were allowed to study in the archives.
他们被允许在档案室里查阅。
1.2
- a complete record of the data in part or all of a computer system, stored on an infrequently used medium归档数据。
with obj.
1- place or store (something) in such a collection or place把…存入档案资料（或档案室）。
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- Computing transfer (data) to a less frequently used storage medium such as magnetic tape, typically external to the computer system and having a greater storage capacity【计算机】归档。
派生词
archival
adjective词源
early 17th cent. （in the sense 'place where records are kept'）： from French archives (plural)， from Latin archiva, archia, from Greek arkheia 'public records'， from arkhē 'government'. Theverb dates from the late 19th cent.