zip file

English

Etymology

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

Noun

zip file (plural zip files)

1. A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.
   • 2003, David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern, Eclipse in action: a guide for Java developers, page 244:

     To make that functionality available, you have to place a zip file containing the source in the top-level directory of the plug-in [...]

   • 2004, Alan Simpson, Alan Simpson's Windows XP Bible, page 505:

     To e-mail a zip file, you need to attach the zip file to an e-mail message.

   • 2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O:

     Because zip is not just a compression format like deflation or gzip but an archival format, a single zip file often contains multiple [...]

   • 2006, Phil Mason, SAS tips and techniques from around the globe, page 269:

     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.

Translations

a compressed computer file

• Dutch: zipfile (nl) m
• Finnish: ZIP-pakkaus, ZIP-tiedosto