information retrieval

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

information retrieval

Related words

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