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retrievability

retrievability noun: the quality of being retrievable.

Noun

retrievability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being retrievable.
    • For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past.2007 July 1, Jonathan Dee, “All the News That’s Fit to Print Out”, in New York Times

Origin of retrievability

From retrieve + -ability.

Questions about retrievability

What does retrievability mean?
Retrievability means the quality of being retrievable.
What part of speech is retrievability?
Retrievability is a noun.

Words near retrievability in the dictionary

  1. retricks
  2. retried
  3. retrier
  4. retriers
  5. retries
  6. retrievability
  7. retrievable
  8. retrievableness
  9. retrievably
  10. retrieval
  11. retrievals

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