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Imbedding

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

📖 Definitions of "Imbedding"

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.

noun
  1. 1

    The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

  2. 2

    A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure).

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