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embedded

UK/ɪmˈbɛdɪd/

embedded adjective: part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted. Also the simple past and past participle of embed.

Adjective

embedded (comparative more embedded, superlative most embedded)

  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.1839-1843, Charles Darwin, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
    • That is, a program which will execute in an embedded target computer is developed on a host computer which offers extensive support facilities.1980, Stoneman requirements
    Synonyms:
    inbuilt
  2. Partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.
  3. Not minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes), i.e. having a proper sub-ideal which is an associated prime.
    Antonyms:
    isolated

Also used as

embedded is also the simple past and past participle of embed.

Examples of embedded in a sentence

  • The preprocessor expands any embedded macros into source code before it is compiled.
  • The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.
  • Nevertheless, it may be too late—mistakes in Greenlandic already seem to have become embedded in machine translators.

All 40 example sentences with embedded

Synonyms of embedded

Antonyms

Forms of embedded

comparativemore embedded
superlativemost embedded

Origin of embedded

From embed + -ed.

Words formed from embedded

Phrases with embedded

Questions about embedded

What does embedded mean?
Embedded means part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.
What part of speech is embedded?
Embedded is an adjective.
How do you pronounce embedded?
Embedded is pronounced /ɪmˈbɛdɪd/ (UK).

Words near embedded in the dictionary

  1. embeams
  2. embed
  3. embeddability
  4. embeddable
  5. embeddable programming
  6. embedded
  7. embedded clause
  8. embedded clauses
  9. embedded system
  10. embedded systems
  11. embeddedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embedded (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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