Definition: the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
Similar words: human action, human activity, deed, act
Definition: something that people do or cause to happen
Synonyms: retrieval
Definition: the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
Usage: my retrieval of people's names is very poor
Similar words: memory, remembering
Definition: the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
Usage: he can do it from memory; he enjoyed remembering his father
Synonyms: retrieval
Definition: (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
Similar words: computer operation, machine operation
Definition: an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform