Distillation

Quick meaning: Distillation is a noun meaning The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. That which falls in drops.
2. The substance extracted by distilling.
3. (machine learning) The transformation of a complex large language model into a smaller one.
4. (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.

Example Sentences

Then, were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass […]

to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.

Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot[.]

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.

Word Forms

• distillations

Synonyms for distillation

Depending on context, synonyms include distillate, distillment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distillment, distillate, distilling, tar, distiller, distillery.

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