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Returning vs Retrieval - What's the difference?

returning | retrieval |

As nouns the difference between returning and retrieval

is that returning is the act of one who returns; a coming back while retrieval is the act of retrieving or something retrieved.

As a verb returning

is .

returning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who returns; a coming back.
  • * 2012 , Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free (page 221)
    • It was a time of returnings . Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.

    retrieval

    English

    (wikipedia retrieval)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of retrieving or something retrieved
  • (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device
  • the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness