This term is somewhat unofficial since it has gone through many changes and can refer to other unrelated meanings. When you want to zip something to someone, you may be talking about sending something very fast, or just sending it at any speed. However in the computer world ZIP has come to be known as at least two different major parts of using computer files, one has gone out of practice while the other remains still.
If you need to compress a file there are many options, of them is the standard ZIP compression system. Technically one or more files or folders can be archived into a ZIP file without compression, however in most cases the archive file is compressed to save on storage space and bandwidth usage.
ZIP file compression and decompression software is readily available on most user computers and is universally used for communicating files, especially when they are large in size or are very complex file/folder structures.
