distillation
nounEtymology
From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin distīllātiōnem, accusative of distīllātiō.
- derived from distīllātiōnem
- derived from distillacioun
- inherited from distillacioun
Definitions
The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
That which falls in drops.
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.
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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 […]
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
- neighbordestructive distillation
- neighbordry distillation
- neighborfractional distillation
- neighborfreeze distillation
- neighbormembrane distillation
- neighborsalt-effect distillation
- neighborsteam distillation
- neighborvacuum distillation
Derived
bidistillation, codistillation, cryodistillation, destructive distillation, distillation chaser, dry distillation, fractional distillation, freeze distillation, global distillation, hydrodistillation, membrane distillation, microdistillation, predistillation, redistillation, salt-effect distillation, steam distillation, vacuum distillation
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.
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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