[DOCS] Add 'recovery' to glossary for issue #7264 (#40275) (#40311)

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 and their query results are not cacheable. As a general rule, use query clauses for full-text 
 search or for any condition that requires scoring, and use filters for everything else.

+[[glossary-recovery]] recovery ::
+The process of syncing a shard copy from a source shard. Upon completion, the recovery process makes the shard copy available for queries.
+
+Recovery automatically occurs anytime a shard moves to a different node in the same cluster, including:
+
+* Node startup
+* Node failure
+* Index shard replication
+* Snapshot restoration
+
 [[glossary-replica-shard]] replica shard ::

 Each <<glossary-primary-shard,primary shard>> can have zero or more