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zip file

noun

Etymology

zip (meaning "move at high speed") was suggested by Robert Mahoney, friend of Phil Katz (original developer of the format).

Definitions

  1. A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files

    A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.

    • To make that functionality available, you have to place a zip file containing the source in the top-level directory of the plug-in [...]
    • To e-mail a zip file, you need to attach the zip file to an e-mail message.
    • Because zip is not just a compression format like deflation or gzip but an archival format, a single zip file often contains multiple [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for zip file. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA