Glossary

Embedding

An embedding is a numeric representation of content that places similar meaning nearby in vector space. Embeddings power semantic search and RAG. Choice of embedding model, chunking, and refresh cadence affect recall quality as much as the database brand.

Why it matters to your operation

Garbage embeddings make confident wrong retrieval look like "AI failure."

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