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- 1. a computer file whose contents of one or more files are compressed for storage or transmission, often carrying the extension .ZIP: "a self-extracting zip file"
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ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. This format was originally created in 1989 and was first implemented in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility, as a replacement for the previous ARC com... Wikipedia