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vector database

/ˈvɛktər ˈdeɪtəbeɪs/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The new system of record for documents no one would govern in the old system of record.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A store optimized to index embeddings and return nearest-neighbor matches for similarity search.

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See also

chunkingCutting the policy in half exactly where the exception lived.
embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.
semantic searchSearch that understands the question better than the org understands the answer.