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title: "Semantic result merging"
sidebarTitle: "Vector Arithmetic"
description: "Add and subtract embeddings to steer a query toward or away from a concept."
---

Explores vector arithmetic: manipulating embeddings to capture relationships a
single query vector cannot. Adding or subtracting the vector representation of a
concept shifts the query, which makes searches more nuanced than a literal
similarity lookup.

<Note>
This example is a runnable notebook in the
[vectordb-recipes](https://github.com/lancedb/vectordb-recipes) repository rather than a page here.
</Note>

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