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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unarchivable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English archivable English unarchivable From un- + archivable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Incapable of being archived.
    • The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable. 2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102: