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Embedding
noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
- 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 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 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 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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- 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.
- 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.
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Verb
- 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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