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retrieval

DEFINITIONS OF: retrieval

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n the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)

Synonyms:
recovery
Types:
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repossession
the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default)
reclamation
the recovery of useful substances from waste products
deliverance, delivery, rescue, saving
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
ransom
the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
recapture, retaking
the act of taking something back
lifesaving
saving the lives of drowning persons
redemption, salvation
(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
reclamation, reformation
rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
salvage
the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire
salvage
the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction
salvation
saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
search and rescue mission
a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them
Type of:
act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen

n the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory

“my retrieval of people's names is very poor”
Type of:
memory, remembering
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered

n (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory

Types:
stovepiping
retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers
Type of:
computer operation, machine operation
an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform
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