Verb

embedded

1. Simple past tense and past participle of embed.

Adjective

embedded (comparative more embedded, superlative most embedded)

Positive embedded

Comparative more embedded

Superlative most embedded

1. To be part of, and firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into.
   • 1839-1843, Charles Darwin, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle:

     Near Maldonado I saw estuary shells of recent species embedded in clay, and raised above the level of a neighbouring fresh-water lake.

   • 1980, Stoneman requirements:

     That is, a program which will execute in an embedded target computer is developed on a host computer which offers extensive support facilities.

2. To be partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.

Embedded

Embedded or embedding may refer to:

• In mathematics, Embedding is one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance
  • Graph embedding
• In computers, an Embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls
• In computers, embedding media into a text document, forming a compound document
• In computers, embedded font
• Distributed generation, also known as embedded generation or decentralized generation
• In linguistics, a subordinate clause is sometimes referred to as an embedded clause
• In linguistics, Center embedding, defines the recursive nesting of an element in the middle of a similar element
• In psychology, Self-embedding is an activity in which one pushes items into one's own flesh in order to feel pain
• Embedded is a song off Job For A Cowboy's second album, Genesis, which was released in 2007.
• Embedded journalism, working within and under the control of one side's army in a military conflict
• Embedded (play), by Tim Robbins about embedded journalists covering military conflict in the US-Iraq war
• Embedded (album), a 2004 album by Mark Seymour
• Embed International, a supplier of debit card systems