Unarc

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To extract (a file) from a compressed archive in ARC (file format). transitive

    "I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83."

Example

More examples

"I unarced it with UNARC.F83, a good example of a useful application that runs using only standard words (and F83 in particular). The unarced file is VIDEO.BLK, which looks similar to the VIDEO.BLK file from VIDEOF83."

Etymology

From un- + ARC.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.