distillation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The substance extracted by distilling.

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

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

4. 4
   noun

   a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   That which falls in drops.

7. 7
   noun

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

Etymology

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