ARCHIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archival mean? 

• ARCHIVAL (adjective)
  The adjective ARCHIVAL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ARCHIVAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHIVAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)

Derivation:

archive (a depository containing historical records and documents)

 Context examples 

This collection is intended to facilitate large research studies that require both archival tissue and clinical and outcome data.

(Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to determining the galaxy's size from the Hubble images, the team dug into archival far-infrared images from Spitzer and Herschel.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

The new research with archival Chandra and VLA data examines how the expanding supernova remnant G1.0+0.3 interacts with the gas and dust surrounding the explosion.

(Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified, NASA)

Using archival data from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH), the team were able to determine the stellar mass, star-formation rate, and the ages of the stars.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Clinical Informatics Shared Resource provides database and application support to the clinical research programs in Cancer Center including overall informatics support for clinical operations, patient registry services, development of clinical trials management applications, laboratory information management applications, privacy protection components necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services, storage, archival and other informatics services.

(Clinical Informatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

For their research, the scientists used NASA's repurposed planet-hunting Kepler space telescope — its mission now known as K2 — along with the archival data from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory, a mission of the European Space Agency with NASA participation.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)