RETRIEVAL

• (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)

  synonyms : recovery

• (noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory

  "my retrieval of people's names is very poor"

• (noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory

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