Hypertext Webster Gateway: "retrieval"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Retrieval \Re*triev"al\, n.
The act retrieving.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
retrieval
n 1: (computer science) the operation of accessing information
from the computer's memory
2: the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory;
"my retrieval of people's names is very poor"
3: the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger
of becoming lost) [syn: {recovery}]
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