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embed

/əmˈbɛd/ · noun

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. An element of an advertisement, etc. serving as a subliminal message.
  3. An item embedded in another document.
  4. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  5. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
  6. To encapsulate within another document or data file.
  7. 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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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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