Embedding

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
  2. 2
    A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.; A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
  3. 3
    A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.; An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
  4. 4
    A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.; A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
  5. 5
    A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.; A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
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  1. 6
    A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.; An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
  2. 7
    A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.

    "word embeddings"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of embed form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From embed + -ing.

Etymology 2

From embed + -ing.

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