Verb

Infinitive to embed

Third person singular embeds

Simple past embedded

Past participle embedded

Present participle embedding

to embed (third-person singular simple present embeds, present participle embedding, simple past and past participle embedded)

1. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:

     I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains.

2. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

   We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.

3. (computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).

   "The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the word document"

4. (mathematics, transitive) To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.

   The torus can be embedded in .

Embedded or embedding may refer to:

• In mathematics, Embedding is one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance
  • Graph embedding
• In computers, an Embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls
• In computers, embedding media into a text document, forming a compound document
• Distributed generation, also known as embedded generation or decentralised generation
• In linguistics, a subordinate clause is sometimes referred to as an embedded clause
• In linguistics, Center embedding, defines the recursive nesting of an element in the middle of a similar element
• In building construction, it may refer to a means of providing support or reinforcement, such as structural steel items embedded in a concrete pour
• In psychology, Self-embedding is an activity in which one pushes items into one's own flesh in order to feel pain
• Embedded is a song off Job For A Cowboy's second album, Genesis, which was released in 2007.
• Embedded journalism, working within and under the control of one side's army in a military conflict
• Embedded (play), by Tim Robbins about embedded journalists covering military conflict in the US-Iraq war
• Embedded (album), a 2004 album by Mark Seymour