Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of retrieving.
- n. Computer Science The process of accessing information from memory or other storage devices.
- n. The possibility of being retrieved or restored: lost possessions beyond retrieval.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of retrieving; recovery; restoration.
Wiktionary
- n. the act of retrieving or something retrieved
- n. computing the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device
- n. the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act retrieving.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- n. the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
- n. (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
Examples
“Does not require caching the search results other than the title retrieval information.”
“Not that I don't think information retrieval is an important skill that every child should have, but my fiction circulates SO much more than nonfiction -- even those that are curricular based nonfiction titles do not always get taken out.”
“While information retrieval is still exceedingly important, the infrastructure has blown the doors off of write-access, turning the Web into the Peer to Peer network that it was invented to be.”
“As already noted, egg retrieval is expensive and invasive.”
“Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.”
“During the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants perform an old / new word recognition task including words presented at the word encoding phase intermixed with new words.”
“Preceding the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants were presented in the scanner with a "localizer" task involving passive viewing of either 80 spatial scenes, 80 four-letter words, or a fixation cross.”
“During the word retrieval phase, participants simultaneously performed a visual attention task.”
“During the word retrieval / scene enceoding phase, participants performed a word recognition task.”
“But the idea of retrieval practice didn't need to involve testing at all.”
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EN - fine scholarly language
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
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SEDE - intelligence and communication
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
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my dictionary
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
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psychology
influence, construal, mimicry, behavior, stimulus, response, control, need, belonging, environment, conflict, difference and 60 more...
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Library Words
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