noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web. uncountable

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accessingliterature searchquery processingqueryingrecover lost filesretrievals