diffusion
- noun
- /dɪˈfjuːʒən/
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difusión
- A third area in the new ethnolandscape ecology is concerned with the innovation and diffusion of environmental knowledge among socially disempowered peoples.
Examples
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Without effective intervention, the diffusion model 32 suggests that these products may become popular among young adults.
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It's using, you know, obviously diffusion and creating images from scratch using a natural language text prompt, which is sick.
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Diffusion of the Intervention into the Control Group
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Normally, culture is transmitted from elder to junior, but especially in cases of rapid innovation or diffusion, the younger teach the older.
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Designers of portable field instruments have a diffusion material available for increasing contrast in their LCD panels.
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The connections between identity achievement, diffusion, and the ego strengths represent the most powerful component of this study's findings.
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The ultimate causes are three primordial environmental facts: the shapes of the continents, the distribution of domesticable wild plants and animals, and the geographical barriers inhibiting the diffusion of domesticates.
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In machine learning, a diffusion model generates images by progressively refining random noise through a denoising process.
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The diffusion approach in AI allows algorithms to create realistic audio by systematically removing background noise.
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Researchers demonstrated that diffusion models could effectively produce artworks by learning from vast datasets.
Compounds
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Ideas, customs, and goods like music or food spread from one group to another
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A machine that uses a jet of vapor to remove gas and make a very strong vacuum
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Diffusion comes from Latin parts dif- 'apart' and fundere 'to pour', which gives the sense of things spreading out. A helpful way to remember the machine learning use is to imagine a noisy 'pour' of dots that slowly change and become a clear picture — that gradual change is called diffusion.
