Retention
Meaning of Retention
The continued possession or memory of something.
ما معنى كلمة Retention بالعربي؟
الاحتفاظ أو البقاء أو حفظ المعلومات
📚🧠 الاحتفاظ أو البقاء أو حفظ المعلومات؛ قدرة الذاكرة على تخزين واستبقاء المعرفة؛ عملية الحفظ طويل المدى للمعلومات والخبرات في الذاكرة بحيث يُمكن استرجاعها عند الحاجة إليها 📚🧠
قصة GL: تحسين الاحتفاظ بالمعلومات عبر تقنيات التعلم الجيني - قدرة الذاكرة المُطورة، عملية الحفظ المُحسنة التي تُحققها زيادة عوامل النمو العصبي HBDNF بنسبة 88% لترسيخ التعلم 🔬
Synonyms & related words
Retention in a sentence
Retention of words was tested at 30 and 90 days.
Customer retention grew after the update.
Retention of documents is required by law.
Retention improves with spaced review.
Origin of Retention
From Latin retentio, from retinere 'to hold back'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, retention is a key GL metric. Programmes are judged by how well learners retain words.
Retention audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Retention" — noun, pronounced /rɪˈtenʃn/, with the stress on "ten".
Narrator: Retention is the act of keeping something, or of continuing to have it.
Narrator: In plain English, it means keeping hold.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin retentio, a holding back.
Narrator: A common collocation is "customer retention", which describes keeping customers coming back.
Narrator: It differs from "acquisition", because acquisition gains new customers, while retention keeps existing ones.
Narrator: In a second sense, water retention is when the body holds too much fluid.
Narrator: Business, HR, education and medicine all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: retention is keeping what you have.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does the app send me so many emails?
Speaker B: For RETENTION! It comes from Latin for holding back.
Speaker A: To keep me using it?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Staff retention has improved", HR. "Data retention rules apply", compliance. "Salt can cause water retention", health.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-tion", "retention", not "retension".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Keeping is its cousin, preservation its twin, and loyalty an alternative — yet retention keeps its loyal charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "retention" in AI prompts — useful for product analytics and compliance.
Speaker A: How for analytics?
Speaker B: Build cohorts.
Prompt: Build a monthly retention cohort table from this user sign-up and login data.
Speaker A: And compliance?
Speaker B: Set periods.
Prompt: Draft a data retention schedule for customer, payroll and marketing data.
Speaker A: Could it help product?
Speaker B: Yes, for features.
Prompt: Suggest three features that would improve thirty-day retention for a fitness app.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Logs.
Prompt: Configure a log retention policy that deletes logs older than ninety days.
Frequently asked questions about Retention
What does Retention mean?
The continued possession or memory of something.
ما معنى كلمة Retention بالعربي؟
الاحتفاظ أو البقاء أو حفظ المعلومات — 📚🧠 الاحتفاظ أو البقاء أو حفظ المعلومات؛ قدرة الذاكرة على تخزين واستبقاء المعرفة؛ عملية الحفظ طويل المدى للمعلومات والخبرات في الذاكرة بحيث يُمكن استرجاعها عند الحاجة إليها 📚🧠
How do you pronounce Retention?
Retention is pronounced /rɪˈtenʃn/ and is used as a noun.
How is Retention used in a sentence?
Retention of words was tested at 30 and 90 days.
What are synonyms of Retention?
holding, memory, keeping, preservation, maintenance, recall.