distillation

noun
/dɪstɪˈleɪʃən/UK/ˌdɪstɪˈleɪʃən/CA/dɪstɪˈlæɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin distīllātiōnem, accusative of distīllātiō.

  1. derived from distīllātiōnem
  2. derived from distillacioun
  3. inherited from distillacioun

Definitions

  1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

  2. That which falls in drops.

  3. The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by…

    The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. The substance extracted by distilling.

      • to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.
      • Then, were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass […]
    2. The transformation of a complex large language model into a smaller one.

      • Distillation is often used to train new systems. If a company takes data from proprietary technology, the practice may be legally problematic. But it is often allowed by open source technologies.
      • Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distillation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distillation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at distillation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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