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information retrieval

information retrieval 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.

Noun

information retrieval (uncountable)

  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.

information retrieval meaning in Tamil

information retrieval in Tamil

தெரிசெய்தி மீட்பு

Questions about information retrieval

What does information retrieval mean?
Information retrieval means 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.
What is information retrieval in Tamil?
Information retrieval in Tamil is தெரிசெய்தி மீட்பு. See Information retrieval meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is information retrieval?
Information retrieval is a noun.

Words near information retrieval in the dictionary

  1. information modeling
  2. information models
  3. information overload
  4. information processing
  5. information radiator
  6. information retrieval
  7. information scent
  8. information scents
  9. information science
  10. information sciences
  11. information security

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Adapted from Wiktionary: information retrieval (page history and authors); information retrieval (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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