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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).

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Imbedding"

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WordDefinition
invariantnounNot varying; constant.
embedverb(transitive, computing) To encapsulate within another document or data file.
integratingverbThat integrates.
extractingverb(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
incorporatingverb(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
attachingverb(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
encapsulatingnoun(programming, object-oriented programming) Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
overlayingverbOverlaid ornamentation.
deformingnoun
insertingverbSomething inserted or set in, such as lace in garments.
creatingverbcreation
transformingnountransformation
entrappingverb(transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
removingverbremoval
integralnoun(mathematics) One of the two fundamental operations of calculus (the other being differentiation), whereby a function's displacement, area, volume, or other qualities arising from the study of infinitesimal change are quantified, usually defined as a limiting process on a sequence of partial sums. Denoted using a long s: ∫, or a variant thereof.
retainingverbThe act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
augmentingverb(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
reinforcingverbUsed to reinforce.
implantingverb(transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.
infusingverb(transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

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