Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

information retrieval

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.33 in modern English

Syllables
in-for-ma-tion re-trieval
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Phrases

document retrieval

Frequently Paired Words

document retrieval

Questions

What does information retrieval mean?
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.

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