embed

/əmˈbɛd/

noun

  1. 1

    An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.

  2. 2

    An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.

  3. 3

    An item embedded in another document.

verb

  1. 1

    To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

    to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
  2. 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. 3

    To encapsulate within another document or data file.

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

    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.

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