information retrieval
Noun

information retrieval (uncountable)

  1. (information science) 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.
Related terms Translations
  • French: recherche d'information
  • Russian: информацио́нный по́иск



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