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    Pythonlangchain-classicembeddingscacheCacheBackedEmbeddingsembed_query
    Method●Since v1.0

    embed_query

    Embed query text.

    By default, this method does not cache queries. To enable caching, set the cache_query parameter to True when initializing the embedder.

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    embed_query(
        self,
        text: str,
    ) -> list[float]

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    text*str

    The text to embed.

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