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unarcing

unarcing is the present participle and gerund of unarc.

Meaning of unarc

Verb

unarc (third-person singular simple present unarcs, present participle unarcing, simple past and past participle unarced)

  1. (transitive) To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format).
    • I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83.1988, Forth Dimensions, volume 10, page 18

Questions about unarcing

What is unarcing the present participle and gerund of?
Unarcing is the present participle and gerund of unarc.

Words near unarcing in the dictionary

  1. unarchiver
  2. unarchivers
  3. unarchives
  4. unarchiving
  5. unarchs
  6. unarcing
  7. unarcs
  8. unarduous
  9. unareolated
  10. unarguability
  11. unarguable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unarcing (page history and authors); unarc (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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