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retrieval - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun Computers The process of accessing information from memory or other storage devices.noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun retrieving or something retrieved noun computing the operation of accessing data , either from memory or from a storage device noun cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun noun
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Does not require caching the search results other than the title retrieval information.
The Code Project Latest Articles NetDave 2009
Not that I don't think information retrieval is an important skill that every child should have, but my fiction circulates SO much more than nonfiction -- even those that are curricular based nonfiction titles do not always get taken out.
State Birds and Foods of Many Lands Roger Sutton 2008
While information retrieval is still exceedingly important, the infrastructure has blown the doors off of write-access, turning the Web into the Peer to Peer network that it was invented to be.
inkblurt · A Layer Model for the IA Profession 2006
As already noted, egg retrieval is expensive and invasive.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
As already noted, egg retrieval is expensive and invasive.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
Working memory, which allows for short-term retrieval and storage of information, is closely related to the kind of mental control used in mindfulness.
Livescience.com 2010
During the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants perform an old / new word recognition task including words presented at the word encoding phase intermixed with new words.
PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009
Preceding the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants were presented in the scanner with a "localizer" task involving passive viewing of either 80 spatial scenes, 80 four-letter words, or a fixation cross.
PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009
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