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embedded, ppl. a. (Formerly at embed v.)|ɛm-, ɪmˈbɛdɪd|
Also imbedded.
[f. embed v. + -ed1.]
a. That is fixed firmly in a surrounding solid mass.
1818Trans. R. Irish Acad. XIII. 4 Killinite occurs imbedded, in elongated prisms. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Others ascribed the imbedded fossil bodies to some plastic power which resided in the earth in the early ages of the world. 1843Embedded [see spartalite n.]. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. ii. 113 The elegant forms of the imbedded shells. 1934Forestry VIII. 155 A mass of brownish friable substance that develops round embedded branch stubs. 1976Mineral. Abstr. XXVII. 256/2 Aluminian strengite.., vivianite.., and taranakite..occur embedded in small ‘terra rossa’ deposits. 1990Computer Buyer's Guide VIII. iii. 46/1 The Panasonic has an 84-key keyboard with an embedded keypad and separate cursor keys.
b. spec. in Linguistics. Of a sentence: contained within a larger sentence; subordinate. Also applied to partial sentences.
1961C. S. Smith in Language XXXVII. 346 When one sentence contains another, the latter sentence will be said to be ‘embedded’. Ibid. 360 An embedded compared adjective has the widest possible scope in any given sentence. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 20 The prepositional phrase in ‘a pipeful of good tobacco’ is an embedded adverbial group. 1968Language XLIV. 32 Any rules that are not concerned with embedded sentences..always treat a constituent sentence as an unanalysable unit. 1985English World-Wide VI. 122 In St[andard] E[nglish] the interrogative transformation which is obligatory for non-embedded questions, cannot be applied to embedded questions.
c. Math. In sense *1 d of the verb.
1968D. Gorenstein Finite Groups 504 The problem of deriving a contradiction from the existence of such a weakly embedded subgroup is unfortunately vastly more difficult than from a strongly embedded one. 1971Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups ii. 88 The above conditions are precisely Bender's definition of a strongly embedded subgroup M of a group G.
emˈbeddedness n.
1922Whitehead Princ. Relativ. ii. 15 Fact..is not the sum of factors; it is rather the concreteness (or, embeddedness) of factors, and the concreteness of an inexhaustible relatedness among inexhaustible relata. 1937Mind XLVI. 83 When we know how to deal with the erst-while novelty, when we have ‘got it taped’, it falls into embeddedness and becomes, or engenders, a part of ourselves. 1952T. Parsons Social System 361 Philosophical investigation, as distinguished from the general imbeddedness of philosophical problems..in any system of action. 1963Economist 7 Sept. 832/1 Man's social embeddedness. |