retrieval

[ ri-tree-vuhl ]
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noun
  1. the act of retrieving.

  2. the chance of recovery or restoration: Sadly, many aboriginal languages have been lost beyond retrieval.

  1. Psychology. the act or process of accessing information previously encoded and stored in memory: The article explores the use of picture matching tasks to assist in word retrieval in aphasic patients.: Compare recall (def. 9), recognition (def. 9).

Origin of retrieval

1
First recorded in 1635–45; retrieve + -al2

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British Dictionary definitions for retrieval

retrieval

/ (rɪˈtriːvəl) /


noun
  1. the act or process of retrieving

  2. the possibility of recovery, restoration, or rectification (esp in the phrase beyond retrieval)

  1. a computer filing operation that recalls records or other data from a file

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