Glossary

This glossary describes essential terms and concepts to help you understand Elasticsearch and its related technologies.

Unit Vector

A vector with a magnitude of exactly 1, produced by dividing a vector by its norm. Normalization preserves direction while removing scale differences, which is why unit vectors are useful when comparing embeddings: direction encodes meaning, magnitude does not.

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