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

Example: to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand

(by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

Example: We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.

To encapsulate within another document or data file.

Example: The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.

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.

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

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