Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A non-targeted card that falls out from a card data deck, when a rod search is performed.
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noun
Targets, hits, that are not relevant in an information retrieval search.
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noun
Retrieved, but unwanted, document representations.
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noun
noise in an information retrieval search.
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History
From rod- (needle-) based retrieval in edge-punched card-based data systems.
