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direct searchA search for data that uses some algorithm to pinpoint the exact location of the item. Contrast with sequential search and indexed search. See direct access method. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This may be necessary when a direct search could reveal documents and information not otherwise available in hardcopy format. C-mail features include direct search and retrieval, as well as the ability to access, update, and "check in/out" documents -- all without leaving e-mail. In any event, in the more straightforward case in which a well-constructed direct search turns up little or nothing in any of the major appropriate databases, a conventional database search cannot then go any further toward discovering unknown indirect links such as epilepsy in the above example. |
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