embedded

1. 1
   adjective

   Fixed firmly inside something so it cannot move, or forming a deep and lasting part of it.

   Like a stone stuck so tightly in the bottom of a shoe that you can't shake it loose.

   The splinter was embedded deep in his thumb.

   Old habits can become so embedded that people stop noticing them.

   Similarinbuilt

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2. 2
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of embed. Use it for something that already happened.

   She embedded the photo into the document.

   The coin was embedded in the ice for weeks.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Partly buried in concrete or set into the ground, with some of it still showing.

   Like a post stuck halfway into wet cement until it hardens.

   The fence posts are embedded in concrete.

   Half the boulder was embedded in the soil.

   Similarset, fixed

4. 4
   adjective

   In higher math, describing an associated prime that is not the smallest, because it contains another one inside it.

   Like a smaller circle drawn inside a bigger circle, instead of standing on its own.

   This ring has a single embedded prime sitting above its minimal prime.

   An embedded prime always contains a smaller prime of the same kind.

   Oppositeisolated

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