"embedding" meaning in English

See embedding in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: embeddings [plural]
Etymology: From embed + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|embed|-ing}} embed + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun}} embedding (plural embeddings)
  1. The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
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  2. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
    (topology) A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
    Categories (topical): Mathematics, Topology
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  3. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
    (differential topology) An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
    Categories (topical): Mathematics
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  4. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
    (field theory, Galois theory) A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
    Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations (in mathematics): 嵌入 (qiànrù) (Chinese Mandarin), plongement [masculine] (French), Einbettung [feminine] (German), Einschluss [masculine] (German), greyping [feminine] (Icelandic), immersione [feminine] (Italian), mergulho [masculine] (Portuguese), вложе́ние (vložénije) [neuter] (Russian), inbäddning [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  5. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
    (mathematical analysis) A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
    Categories (topical): Mathematical analysis, Mathematics
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  6. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
    (category theory) An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
    Categories (topical): Category theory, Mathematics
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  7. (machine learning, artificial intelligence) 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. Categories (topical): Artificial intelligence, Machine learning Translations (representation of a unit of text): эмбе́ддинг (embédding) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-embedding-en-noun-jMKBFC6i Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'representation of a unit of text': 0 4 4 7 4 5 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cryoembedding, deep embedding, embedding effect, Plücker embedding, postembedding, preembedding, self-embedding, shallow embedding, superembedding, Yoneda embedding

Verb

Etymology: From embed + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|embed|-ing}} embed + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} embedding
  1. present participle and gerund of embed Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: embed
    Sense id: en-embedding-en-verb-wjDC~EyX

Inflected forms

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