embed
/əmˈbɛd/
Dictionary
noun
- An embedded reporter or journalist, such as a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit, or a political reporter assigned to follow and report on the campaign of a candidate.
- An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
- An item embedded in another document.
verb
- To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
"to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"
- (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."
- To encapsulate within another document or data file.
"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.
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