"zip file" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern, Eclipse in action: a guide for Java developers, page 244",
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          "sense": "a compressed computer file",
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          "word": "zipfile"
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          "sense": "a compressed computer file",
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          "sense": "a compressed computer file",
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      "sense": "a compressed computer file",
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      "word": "zipfile"
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