title: What does dehydration mean in the context of data loading?
body: <p>There are a few threads which discuss the meaning of data hydration.</p>
  
  <p>But I can't find any definitions of data dehydration.</p>
  
  <p>I can see three possible meanings</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>1) Extracting the current state of an object</p>
    
    <p>2) Clearing the state of an object</p>
    
    <p>3) Both 1) and 2)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>This is not a duplicate</strong> of other threads where the meaning of <em>hydration</em> is discussed. This question is about <em>dehydration</em>.</p>