operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"

retrieval - (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory

storage - (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk

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