retrieval
The act of retrieving or something retrievedThe act of retrieving or something retrieved.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of retrieving or something retrieved.
Search dogs assisted in the retrieval of survivors.
(countable, uncountable)The operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device.
data retrieval
document retrieval
the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
(countable, uncountable)The cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness.
information retrieval
Examples
2 sentencesThe hippocampus is a part of the brain associated with the storage and retrieval of memories.
As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.
Translations
3 languagesForms
plural: retrievals| Singular | retrieval |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost):recovery
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.