1. Act of fixing firmly in a surrounding; the state of being embedded
   "The embedding of the fossil in the rock preserved it for millions of years"
    
2. (computer science) a representation of data or concepts as vectors in a multidimensional space
   "Word embeddings are used in natural language processing"
    
3. (mathematics) a function that maps one set into another set or space
   "The embedding of the real numbers into the complex plane"

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"

Derived forms: embeddings

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

Encyclopedia: Embedding