An act of retrieval.

present participle of retrieve

plural of retrieving

A retrieval / (sports) The return of a difficult ball / (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery. / (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

(transitive) To regain or get back something. / (transitive) To rescue (a creature). / (transitive) To salvage something / (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retrieve

One who retrieves something. / A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter. / (surgery) A tool for retrieving materials from the body after an operation.

simple past tense and past participle of retrieve

Capable of being retrieved or recovered.

the act of retrieving or something retrieved / (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device