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retrieval|rɪˈtriːvəl| Also 7 retrival(l. [f. retrieve v. + -al1.] 1. The act of retrieving or recovering; an instance of this.
a1643W. Cartwright Poems (1651) 233 Methinks the first Age comes again, and we See a Retrivall of Simplicity. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Ambrose 382 Rome..is an humble suppliant for the retrival of her ancient Rites. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xc. III. 265 She..implored his advice touching the retrieval of her reputation. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. 1813 XII. 429 To exert themselves for the retrieval of the national loss. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxxvii, He had managed his affairs well,..his fortunes were in the way of retrieval. 1871Mrs. Whitney Real Folks xix, He dwelt on that word ‘child’, reminding her of her short mistaking and of the long retrieval. b. spec. = information retrieval s.v. information 8. Freq. attrib.
1958Bull. Canad. Libr. Assoc. Apr. 193/1 One of the reasons which makes these machines fundamentally uneconomical at present is that the frequency of demand for exactly the same mechanical retrieval process in reference work is rarely sufficient to justify the large initial cost of coding and mechanizing all that a machine incapable of judgment needs, to perform the process. 1966Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 June 950/1 This technique allows medical narrative and numerical data to be collected efficiently in a form acceptable as computer input for subsequent storage, analysis, and retrieval. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. b7/5 The computer's instant retrieval mechanism can make available, within 24 hours, any information contained in major Canadian collective labor agreements. 1972Book-seller 4 Mar. 1463/3 It is highly important..that new systems of cataloguing and retrieval shall be built into the new library. 1974W. Garner Big enough Wreath xi. 138 How many men did you say you had on your..tapes?.. All tucked away in your retrieval system. 1979J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-House Information Syst. i. 26 Retrieval keys, such as indexing terms are stored adjacent to the records to which they relate. 2. = retrieve n. 3.
1707Reflexions upon Ridicule 286 Ruin'd beyond retrieval. 1730Fielding Author's Farce Wks. 1775 I. 187 Matrimony clenches ruin beyond retrieval. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. iii. (1872) I. 150 And so the Teutsch Ritters are sunk beyond retrieval. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 368 The Duke of Somerset had neglected the debts of the realm till they were past retrieval. So † retrieˈvation. Obs. rare—1.
1806Simple Narrative I. 160 Rendering, thereby, its retrievation more difficult, by attending circumstances. |