Usually means: Recovery of stored information, data.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word retrieval:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrieval: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retrieval: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrieval: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retrieval: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retrieval: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retrieval, retrieval: Wordnik
  7. retrieval: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retrieval: Wiktionary
  9. retrieval: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. retrieval: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. retrieval: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Retrieval, retrieval: Dictionary.com
  13. retrieval: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Retrieval (film), Retrieval, The Retrieval: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Retrieval: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. retrieval: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. retrieval: Rhymezone
  18. Retrieval: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. retrieval: Free Dictionary
  20. retrieval: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. retrieval: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieval: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieval: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. retrieval: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  the act of retrieving or something retrieved
noun:  (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device
noun:  the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness

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