information retrieval (English, noun)
expansion: information retrieval (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
Forms: