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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To lay (something) as in a bed

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

   • to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
   • To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   To encapsulate within another document or data file.

   • The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.
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   1. 4

      To define a one-to-one function from one set to another so that certain properties of the…

      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.
   2. 5

      One thing embedded within another, as

      One thing embedded within another, as:

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