retrievals

Acts of recovering

Retrievals is the plural of retrieval—acts of getting something back or recovering stored information.

The word appears most often in technical contexts: database retrievals, information retrievals, memory retrievals.

In machine learning, retrievals refers to instances where a system fetches relevant data: The model performed 500 retrievals per second.

In psychology, memory retrievals are acts of recalling stored information.

physical

recovery

Regaining what was lost

extraction · collection · pickup · gathering · obtaining · securing · repossession · restoration · return · procurement

information

database

Organized digital information collection

lookup · extraction · access · indexing · records · documents · archives · data · files · storage

memory

recall

Memory retrieval act

reminiscence · amnesia · forgetting · recognition · encoding · hippocampus · cue · association · episodic · semantic

dogs

fetching

Appealingly good-looking

  • huntingPursuing wild game
  • gameOrganized play or sport
  • birdsEgg-laying flying vertebrates

ducks · waterfowl · gundog · pointer · labrador · golden · spaniel · training · command · field

Opposites
direction of transfer

retrievalsdeposits

Material settled or stored

placements · insertions · storage · submissions · uploads

information/memory action

retrievalsstorage

Space for keeping goods

encoding · memorization · saving · recording · writing

outcome of search

retrievalslosses

Things subtracted from standing

misplacements · failures · abandonments · disappearances

Phrases
Family

retrieval, retrievable

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