Definition of Information retrieval

1. 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. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Information Retrieval

information age
information and communications technology
information bulletin
information centres
information entropy
information gathering
information integrity
information management
information market
information measure
information model
information modeling
information overload
information processing
information processing system
information retrieval (current term)
information return
information science
information sciences
information security
information services
information space
information storage and retrieval
information superhighway
information symmetry
information system
information systems
information technology
information theory
information velocity

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