RETRIEVAL

recovery, retrieval

(noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)

retrieval

(noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; “my retrieval of people’s names is very poor”

retrieval

(noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer’s memory

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

retrieval (countable and uncountable, plural retrievals)

the act of retrieving or something retrieved

(computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device

the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness

Source: Wiktionary


Re*triev"al, n.

Definition: The act retrieving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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