plural of retriever

The quality of being retrievable.

retrieval

plural of retrievement

(rare) retrievability

Such that it can be retrieved.

plural of retrieving

(information science) Synonym of document retrieval

(information science) The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.

(information science) The matching of a user query against a set of free-text records, including unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real-estate records or paragraphs in a manual.