v. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.v. To include in surrounding matter.v. To encapsulate within another document or data file (unrelated to the other computing meaning of embedded as in embedded system).v. To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.n. Short for embedded reporter/journalist, a war reporter assigned to and travelling with a military unit.