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noun
The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
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noun
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).
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Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: differential topology
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: field theory; Galois theory; field theory; Galois theory
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences
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noun
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.
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Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: machine learning; artificial intelligence; machine learning; artificial intelligence
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verb
present participle and gerund of embed
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
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.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
