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archiving

archiving is the present participle and gerund of archive.

Meaning of archive

Verb

archive (third-person singular simple present archives, present participle archiving, simple past and past participle archived)

  1. (transitive) To place or store (something, such as a document or record) in an archive (noun sense 1.1).
    • I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
    Synonyms:
    archivize, file away
  2. (transitive) To transfer (less used or obsolete data, files, etc.) to a storage medium for long-term storage.

See all 6 meanings of archive

Noun

archiving (countable and uncountable, plural archivings)

  1. The process of storing inactive or historical data in a secure location for long-term retention.

Forms of archiving

pluralarchivings

Words formed from archiving

Questions about archiving

What does archiving mean?
Archiving means the process of storing inactive or historical data in a secure location for long-term retention.
What is archiving the present participle and gerund of?
Archiving is the present participle and gerund of archive.
What part of speech is archiving?
Archiving is a noun.
What is the plural of archiving?
The plural of archiving is archivings.

Words near archiving in the dictionary

  1. archive boxes
  2. archived
  3. archiver
  4. archivers
  5. archives
  6. archiving
  7. archivings
  8. archivism
  9. archivist
  10. archivistic
  11. archivists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archiving (page history and authors); archive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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