Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
zip (meaning "move at high speed") was suggested by Robert Mahoney, friend of Phil Katz (original developer of the format).
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
