1. Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass
   "peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp"; "found pebbles embedded in the silt"; "stone containing many embedded fossils"
    
2. Inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole
   "confused by the embedded Latin quotations"; "an embedded subordinate clause"

1. Fix or set securely or deeply
   "They embedded the post in concrete";
   - implant, engraft, imbed, plant
    
2. Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
   "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
    
3. (computing) put entirely inside another document or data file
   "You can embed a video in your blog post"

See also: enclosed, integrated

Type of: aggroup [archaic], enter, group, infix, insert, introduce

Encyclopedia: Embedded