Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of retrieving.
- noun Computers The process of accessing information from memory or other storage devices.
- noun The possibility of being retrieved or restored.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of retrieving; recovery; restoration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act retrieving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
retrieving or somethingretrieved - noun computing the operation of
accessing data , either frommemory or from astorage device - noun the
cognitive process of bringing storedinformation intoconsciousness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- noun the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
- noun (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
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Examples
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Does not require caching the search results other than the title retrieval information.
The Code Project Latest Articles NetDave 2009
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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.
State Birds and Foods of Many Lands Roger Sutton 2008
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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.
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As already noted, egg retrieval is expensive and invasive.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
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As already noted, egg retrieval is expensive and invasive.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
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Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
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Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
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Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
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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.
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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.
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