Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zip file

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables: zip -file
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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 [...]"
"However, pipes can't be used to read SAS data sets from a zip file in this way. Pipes are used with FILENAME [...]. There is a way to read and write SAS data sets that are stored in a zip file."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

zip files (plural)

Questions

What does zip file mean?: A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.
Where does zip file come from?: zip (meaning "move at high speed") was suggested by Robert Mahoney, friend of Phil Katz (original developer of the format).

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