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Look up embedded, embed, or embedding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Embedded or embedding (alternatively imbedded or imbedding) may refer to:

Science

  • Embedding, in mathematics, one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance
  • Embedded generation, a distributed generation of energy, also known as decentralized generation
  • Self-embedding, in psychology, an activity in which one pushes items into one's own flesh in order to feel pain
  • Embedding, in biology, a part of sample preparation for microscopes
  • Embeddedness, in economics and economic sociology, refers to the degree to which economic activity is constrained by non-economic institutions.

Computing

  • Embedded system, a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls
  • Embedding, installing media into a text document to form a compound document
  • Web embed, an element of a host web page that is substantially independent of the host page
  • Font embedding, inclusion of font files inside an electronic document
  • Embedding (machine learning), a technique (or its resulting representation) that maps complex, high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional vector space of numerical vectors
  • Vector embedding, representing concepts and information by reference to similar concepts, in a multi-dimensional space. Similar to word embeddings but with wide applicability.

Linguistics

  • Embedded clause or dependent clause: one that provides a sentence element with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence
  • Center embedding, recursive nesting of an element in the middle of a similar element

Art