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retrieval

/rɪ'trivəl/

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

type of:
act deed human action human activity
noun
(computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
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type of:
machine operation computer operation
noun
the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
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"my retrieval of people's names is very poor"

type of:
memory remembering

Definition that contains retrieval

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

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