Usually means: Finding relevant data from sources.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word information retrieval:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. information retrieval: Merriam-Webster
  2. information retrieval: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. information retrieval: Collins English Dictionary
  4. information-retrieval: Wordnik
  5. information retrieval: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. information retrieval: Wiktionary
  7. information retrieval: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. information retrieval: Dictionary.com
  9. Information Retrieval, Information retrieval: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. information retrieval: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. information retrieval: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. information retrieval: Netlingo
  2. information retrieval: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. information retrieval: Search Engine Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (information retrieval)

noun:  (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.

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