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Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving. quotations examples
In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.
2021 March 24, Joseph Brennan, “Metallic Marvels from Rail’s Iron Age”, in Rail, number 927, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, page 59
Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving. examples
countable and uncountable, plural archivals
(uncountable) The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this. examples