Retrieval
/ɹɪˈtɹiːvəl/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of retrieving or something retrieved. countable, uncountable
- 2 the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) wordnet
- 3 The operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device. countable, uncountable
- 4 the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory wordnet
- 5 The cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness. countable, uncountable
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- 6 (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory wordnet
Example
More examples"As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'."