Usually means: Compressed archive for file storage.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. zip file: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. zip file: Merriam-Webster
  3. ZIP file, zip file: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. zip file: Collins English Dictionary
  5. zip file: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. zip file: Wiktionary
  7. zip file: Dictionary.com
  8. ZIP file, Zip file: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. zip file: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ZIP file, .zip file: Encyclopedia
  3. zip file: CCI Computer

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (zip file)

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

Similar:
Zip disk, member, unzipper, zip bomb, file, datafile, packager, compressor, Zip drive, download, more...

Opposite:
unzip, extract, decompress, uncompress

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Similar:
Zip disk, member, unzipper, zip bomb, file, datafile, packager, compressor, Zip drive, download, more...

Opposite:
unzip, extract, decompress, uncompress



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