Action and result of recovering something or someone
In a broad sense, the term Recovery will refer to the action and result of recovering something or recovering someone, for example, a lost object, or to recover from a physical condition, such as a broken arm after an accident, respectively.
When it comes to the recovery of something material, it is intended to regain what was lost or damaged. If something is lost, the most common ways to get it back is to go back to the place where it is believed to have been lost, ask people if they saw it, and also inspect the place to find it. In the meantime, if it is an artifact or machine that has broken, in order to recover it, it must be sent to a specialized technical service to check and repair it so that it can work again. Normally in these places they identify the damage and propose the most convenient arrangement.
On the other hand, when it comes to the recovery of the state of health, that moment is usually identified as convalescence. During it, the patient must strictly follow the medical indications so that he can regain his lost health in a timely manner. Generally during that time the patient must rest, and if necessary due to the type of condition, he may be instructed to perform some special practice that adds to his recovery, such is the case of special exercise.
We must say that the meaning of the word that refers to the action of recovering something can be used in the aforementioned cases and in many other situations and contexts in which something demands a reestablishment of normality. Consider the bankruptcy of a company or an earthquake that affects a city. In both situations, it will be necessary through various actions to reestablish the current state of affairs until the moment in which the event occurs.
Make up for activities that were not done at a given time
It is also common for this word to be used to refer to compensation for a time in which a scheduled activity was not carried out or was unproductive. "Maria will have to make a recovery this week if she does not want the company to discount the day she did not come to work."
Education: test taken from a failed or failed subject
On the other hand, in the educational field, the term recovery refers to that An exam that is taken from a certain subject that was suspended in a timely manner, or failing that, that is taken towards the end of a term or school year as a consequence that the student did not pass it. That is, in some instances of learning the student is given the opportunity to improve performance on an exam. "Math make-up will be in December."
Computing: techniques that allow you to recover lost or deleted files
In Computer Science, we also find use of the term. Data recovery are those techniques that are used to recover files that were lost or deleted from any of the storage media. The loss may have originated as a result of some defect on the surface on which the data was stored, a scratch on the CD, for example, or failing that after selecting the delete file option.
For its part, Information retrieval is that science that deals with the search for information in documents, the search for them, in databases and in those documents where the requested information is described.
This science requires the construction of a vocabulary made up of a series of natural language terms.
Use in sociology
AND at the behest of Sociology, the recovery turns out to be a concept that had its origin in the philosophy of situationism (current of thought inspired by the Situationist International very close to communism in its proposal). Its main proposal consists of the incorporation of revolutionary ideas and things into the logic of the market economy, even if it is paradoxical. An example of this issue is the commercial use that has been given to the image of Che Guevara, the sale of T-shirts with his face and the acquisition of these by individuals who know little about his politics and ideas, but consume it because somehow it became fashionable.
