plural of retrieval

plural of retriever

The quality of being retrievable.

Such that it can be retrieved.

plural of retrievement

retrieval

plural of retrieving

A breed of dog, originating in Britain.

(information science) The matching of a user query against a set of free-text records, including unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real-estate records or paragraphs in a manual.

(information science) The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.