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embedding.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/ɪmˈbɛdɪŋ//ɛmˈbɛdɪŋ/

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

  2. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).

  3. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.

  4. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).

  5. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).

  6. A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another. An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.

  7. A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.

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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed English -ing English embedding From embed + -ing.

verb/ɪmˈbɛdɪŋ//ɛmˈbɛdɪŋ/

  1. present participle and gerund of embed

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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed English embed English -ing English embedding From embed + -ing.

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