[
UK
/ɹɪtɹˈiːvəl/
]
[ US /ɹiˈtɹivəɫ, ɹɪˈtɹivəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈtɹivəɫ, ɹɪˈtɹivəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
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the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
my retrieval of people's names is very poor - (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
How To Use retrieval In A Sentence
- Retrieval before additions All records will be in their correct places and the file will be physically as well as logically in sequence.
- From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
- It is hard to justify requiring companies to keep records of historical importance in a retrievable format when technological advances make retrieval increasingly difficult.
- Type 5 - Automatic small-parts storage and retrieval systems - back-to-back racking and binning.
- Thus terms such as "information processing" and "information retrieval" are really "data processing" and " data retrieval". Computers Basic Facts
- Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pictures of missing children lay at a soldiers foot during a retrieval operation in Iligan, southern Philippines Friday. Asia in Pictures
- By then the situation was beyond retrieval .
- It is also timely given the growing interest in multilingual information retrieval involving East Asian languages.
- Both browsers file addresses into folders for later retrieval, but approach the task from very different angles.
- In the current age of data warehousing, the timely processing and retrieval of vast amounts of data is vital to the decision-making process.