Retention

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General

• Recall (memory), in learning, the ability to recall facts and figures in memory
• Memory and retention in learning
• Selective retention
• Cultural retention
• Customer retention
• University student retention
• Employee retention, the ability to keep employees within an organization
• Forced retention
• Grade retention, in schools, keeping a student in the same grade for another year (that is, not promoting the student to the next higher grade with their classmates)
• Retention or retainage of an agreed portion of a contract price until project completion
• Retention basin
• Retention election, in the United States court system, a process whereby a judge is periodically subject to a vote in order to remain in the position of judge
• Retention rate
• Retention ratio, in company earnings
• Retention of vision, in magic
• Water retention (medicine), abnormal accumulation of fluid in the body
• Urinary retention, the lack or inability to urinate
• Variable retention, in land management and forestry conservation

Information and records

• Retention (news server), in Usenet, the time a news server holds a newsgroup posting before deleting it as no longer relevant
• Data retention, in law and computing
  • Data retention (telecommunication)
• Retention period, of a document, in records management
• Retention of title clause, in law

Chemistry

• Retention agent, a process chemical
• CO₂ retention
• Retention of configuration, in chemical reactions
• ER retention, proteins retained in the endoplasmic reticulum after folding
• Retention factor

Maths

• Retention distance
• Retention uniformity

See also

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• Water retention (disambiguation)
• Retainer (disambiguation)