embed

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war

   The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division

2. 2
   verb

   To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

   to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand

3. 3
   verb

   To include (something) in surrounding matter.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To encapsulate within another document or data file.

   The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.

5. 5
   verb

   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 S¹#92;timesS¹ can be embedded in #92;mathbb#123;R#125;³.

6. 6
   verb

   fix or set securely or deeply

7. 7
   noun

   One thing embedded within another, as:

Etymology

From em- + bed.