embedded

Meanings

Verb

• fix or set securely or deeply
• attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
  • "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
• simple past and past participle of embed

Adjective Satellite

• enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass
  • "found pebbles embedded in the silt"
  • "stone containing many embedded fossils"
  • "peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp"
• inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole
  • "confused by the embedded Latin quotations"
  • "an embedded subordinate clause"

Adj

• Part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.
• Partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.
• Not minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes), i.e. having a proper sub-ideal which is an associated prime.

Synonyms

embed, engraft, imbed, implant, plant

Antonyms

isolated