Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, kept in, or suitable for archives.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to archives or records; contained in records.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
  • adjective Of a quality suited to the conservational needs of an archive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive

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Examples

  • Two weeks ago, I posted that IDW would be reprinting the Archie newspaper strip in archival hardcovers beginning in 2010.

    Dark Horse Publishing Archie Archives Reprint Project » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • Prints are offered as limited editions in archival-quality formats at affordable prices.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The neat trick is to connect the uneasy church-and-state issues that dog Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson (who all play themselves in archival footage, thank you) all the way back to the arrival of the first religion-obsessed New World settlers.

    PBS's calm and evenhanded 'God in America' Hank Stuever 2010

  • If you haven't carefully stored your Food sections in archival binders -- but really, who hasn't?

    Chat Leftovers: What's for dinner? Jane Touzalin 2010

  • If only we could think of some change in archival and communication technology between 1974 and today …

    Matthew Yglesias » Modernize the PRA 2009

  • The National Archives has information on proposed regulations regarding personal data contained in archival/historical purposes:

    Data Protection and Archival Material « Cork Genealogist 2008

  • Rob Pegoraro: Last month, I had the chance to sit down with a guy keenly interested in long-term archival of data -- Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

    Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Orthodoxy, symbolized by domestic markers of status and respectability derived from European customs, came a generation after initial colonial land claims. 73 Significantly, evidence of this cultural orthodoxy appears in archival sources after a period of contested frontier life.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • The vision of Archivopedia is to offer users the ability to locate or view historical documents and images held in archival, museum, and library repositories around the world in a single search and to encourage professionals, teachers, and students at all levels to use archival documents

    December 2007 2007

  • The vision of Archivopedia is to offer users the ability to locate or view historical documents and images held in archival, museum, and library repositories around the world in a single search and to encourage professionals, teachers, and students at all levels to use archival documents

    Archivopedia 2007

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