Embedded
/ɛmˈbɛdɪd/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Embedded
verb
- To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
"to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"
- (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."
- To encapsulate within another document or data file.
"The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document."
- 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.