archival

Plural: archivals

Adjective

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

Adj

Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.

Noun

The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.

Examples

"archival boxes archival paper"
"Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages."

Origin / Etymology

The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).

Synonyms

archivation, archivization

Scrabble Score: 16

archival: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
archival: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
archival: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

archival is a valid Words With Friends word