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embedded

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪmˈbɛdɪd//
  • United Kingdom//ɛmˈbɛdɪd//

Part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.

adjective

  1. 1

    Part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.

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

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

  2. 2

    Partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.

  3. 3

    Not minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes), i.e. having a proper sub-ideal which is an associated prime.

Etymology

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 Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English embedded From embed + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of embedsimple past and past participle of embed

Forms

comparative
more embedded
superlative
most embedded
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).