For Zip we have terms and definitions in 5 topics. The topics are Drugs, Photography, Technology, Telecommunications and Vietnam War.

Zip (Drugs)

Cocaine

Zip (Photography)

To compress a file or files into one file. Commonly used to reduce the size of a file to speed up transmission over the Internet.

Zip (Technology)

A Microsoft Windows-based compressed file. Can contain one or many files as well as a directory structure. On the Internet large graphics and programs are often compressed into ZIP files and then made avaliable for download as a single file. After you download this file you need to use a decompression software program to "UNZIP" the file. Several popular tools exist for zipping: WinZip and NetZIP in Windows, MacZip for Macintosh users, and Zip and UnZip in UNIX systems.

Zip (Telecommunications)

The file extension which refers to archives that were created by the program PKZIP. You need the program PKUNZIP to get the files out of the archive.

Zip (Vietnam War)

Derogatory term for Vietnamese people

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