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noun
the systematic storage and recovery of data, as from a file, card catalog, or the memory bank of a computer. Abbreviation: IR
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Origin of information retrieval
First recorded in 1945â50
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British Dictionary definitions for information retrieval
information retrieval
noun
computing the process of recovering specific information from stored data
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