The retrieval of something is the process of getting it back from a particular place, especially from a place where it should not be. Its real purpose is the launching and retrieval of small aeroplanes in flight. = recovery
A retrieval is a request for information that has been issued by an acquirer because a card issuer has disputed a transaction that has been entered into with one of their cardholders It is not a chargeback as no money has been debited
The retrieval of information from a computer is the process of getting it back. electronic storage and retrieval systems
The capability of referring to permanent terms other than by identifiers or path references
the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
The activity of finding and making available records or record information to the creating administrative units or other researchers Retrieval is a part of the reference service provided by the staff of the University Archives
The process of locating and copying back files and directories that Backup has archived
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, with user queries ranging from multi-sentence full descriptions of an information need to a few words
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
(Ticaret) (AS/RS) A system that uses automatic machines and controls to locate, transport, store and retrieve materials as directed by order requirements
the process of finding stored information, especially on a computer. Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. Keyword searching has been the dominant approach to text retrieval since the early 1960s; hypertext has so far been confined largely to personal or corporate information-retrieval applications. Evolving information-retrieval techniques, exemplified by developments with modern Internet search engines, combine natural language, hyperlinks, and keyword searching. Other techniques that seek higher levels of retrieval precision are studied by researchers involved with artificial intelligence
relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature