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RETRIEVAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("retrieval" is a kind of...):
act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retrieval"):
repossession (the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default))
reclamation (the recovery of useful substances from waste products)
deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)
ransom (the act of freeing from captivity or punishment)
recapture; retaking (the act of taking something back)
Derivation:
retrieve (get or find back; recover the use of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
Example:
my retrieval of people's names is very poor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("retrieval" is a kind of...):
memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)
Derivation:
retrieve (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("retrieval" is a kind of...):
computer operation; machine operation (an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retrieval"):
stovepiping (retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers)
Context examples:
Picture Archiving and Communication System: A network established to provide access, storage and retrieval of images from medical imaging instrumentation.
(Picture Archiving and Communication System, NCI Thesaurus)
Humans possess the ability to actively forget distracting memories, and that retrieval plays a crucial role in this process.
(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)
Cataloging, grouping, and flagging data for ready retrieval.
(Information Resources Management, NCI Thesaurus)
Also, a range of cognitive tests were performed related to short-term memory, verbal comprehension and knowledge, psychomotor speed, visual processing, long-term storage and retrieval, and cognitive processing speed.
(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)
A multidimensional representation of data which provides fast retrieval and drill down facilities.
(Data Cube, NCI Thesaurus)
A proprietary computerized system for liquid nitrogen cryopreservation, tracking, and retrieval for stem cell samples.
(BioArchive System, NCI Thesaurus)
This permitted the retrieval of pristine water and sediment samples that had been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.
(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)
Database management involves the design and maintenance of electronic data storage systems to facilitate and optimize the categorization, selection, and retrieval of information.
(Data Base Management, NCI Thesaurus)
Document management systems commonly provide check-in, check-out, storage and retrieval of electronic documents often in the form of word processor files and the like.
(Document Management System, NCI Thesaurus)
A motif found at the C termini of several luminal proteins of the ER that serves to mediate the retention of resident proteins of the ER lumen through retrieval from post-ER compartments ER via a transport mechanism involving vesicular and tubular elements.
(KDEL Motif, NCI Thesaurus)
