embedded
fixed or snugly enclosed in a surrounding mass:The young turtles are weighed, measured, and tagged with an embedded microchip before being released back into the salt marsh.
incorporated into something as an essential characteristic: In any cultural context, deeply embedded values and attitudes can be difficult to change.
being or relating to a journalist assigned to travel with a military unit or political campaign:He was an embedded reporter with the First Marine Division during the invasion of Iraq.
working closely with a group or participating in a special event as an invited expert, creative professional, etc.:As Radio 3’s first embedded composer, he is writing one new piece of music a week for the breakfast show.
Digital Technology. (of text, images, sound, or code) placed in a computer file, HTML document, software program, or electronic device:Click here or watch the embedded video below to learn more about the work of our Foundation.
Grammar. (of a construction, as a phrase or clause) inserted into a larger construction, as a clause or sentence:Informative texts often include unfamiliar technical vocabulary and complex sentences with embedded clauses.
Histology. (of biological tissue) infiltrated with melted paraffin or other such material that later solidifies, enabling the preparation to be sliced very thin for viewing under a microscope (sometimes used in combination):The fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues were cut into sections 5 μm thick and mounted on glass slides.
the simple past tense and past participle of embed.
Origin of embedded
1- Sometimes im·bed·ded [im-bed-id] /ɪmˈbɛd ɪd/ .
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How to use embedded in a sentence
Down on hands and knees looking for liver-worts, “suddenly I saw my first specimen of Thismia, a tiny flower half-imbedded in the soil,” she wrote.
How passion, luck and sweat saved some of North America’s rarest plants | Susan Milius | November 5, 2020 | Science NewsThe federal government should also rectify the imbedded tax penalties that favor foreign carmakers.
Locating it would have been comparable to stumbling upon a solitary blade of grass, imbedded in ice at the South Pole.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyTail truncated, spine on the side of the tail very distinct, imbedded in a sheath.
Dark grey porphyritic hornstone, approaching to compact felspar, with imbedded crystals of felspar.
I saw the bullet imbedded in the wall near the sofa, and Ivan lay so still and peaceful, I thought he was asleep.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanImbedded in these grotesques of sandstone were fossils of wood, of fresh-water shells, and of fishes.
Overland | John William De Forest
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