"information retrieval" meaning in English

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        "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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        "(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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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "信息檢索"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xìnxī jiǎnsuǒ",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "信息检索"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "資訊檢索"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zīxùn jiǎnsuǒ",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "资讯检索"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "tiedonhaku"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "recherche d’information"
        },
        {
          "alt": "じょうほうけんさく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jōhō-kensaku",
          "sense": "science of searching",
          "word": "情報検索"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "informaciónnyj póisk",
          "sense": "science of searching",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "информацио́нный по́иск"
        }
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        "information retrieval"
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  "word": "information retrieval"
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        "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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          "information",
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          "metadata",
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          "database",
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        "(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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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "信息檢索"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xìnxī jiǎnsuǒ",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "信息检索"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "資訊檢索"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zīxùn jiǎnsuǒ",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "资讯检索"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "tiedonhaku"
    },
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      "roman": "jōhō-kensaku",
      "sense": "science of searching",
      "word": "情報検索"
    },
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