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

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

(rare) retrievability

Such that it can be retrieved.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retrieve

to find and bring back something

(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.

plural of golden retriever

(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.