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embeddings

embeddings is the plural of embedding.

Meaning of embedding

Noun

embedding (plural embeddings)

  1. The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
  2. A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
  3. (differential topology) An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
  4. (field theory, Galois theory) A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
  5. A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
  6. An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.

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Phrases with embeddings

Questions about embeddings

What is embeddings the plural of?
Embeddings is the plural of embedding.

Words near embeddings in the dictionary

  1. embedder
  2. embedders
  3. embedding
  4. embedding effect
  5. embedding effects
  6. embeddings
  7. embedment
  8. embedments
  9. embeds
  10. embeggar
  11. embeggared

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embeddings (page history and authors); embedding (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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