Embedded

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Embedded or embedding may refer to:

In sciences

• In mathematics, embedding is one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance
  • Graph embedding
• Distributed generation of energy, also known as embedded generation or decentralized generation
• In psychology, self-embedding is an activity in which one pushes items into one's own flesh in order to feel pain
• In biology, embedding is part of sample preparation for electron microscopes, in which the sample is infused with a plastic, which then hardens so the sample can be cut into thin slices.

In computing

• An embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls
• Embedding media into a text document, forming a compound document
  • <embed></embed>, an element that inserts a non-standard object into the HTML document, see HTML element#embed
• Font embedding is inclusion of font files inside an electronic document

In linguistics

• A dependent clause is sometimes called an embedded clause
• Center embedding defines the recursive nesting of an element in the middle of a similar element

In art

• Embedded journalism, working within and under the control of one side's army in a military conflict
• Embedded (play), a play by Tim Robbins about embedded journalists covering military conflict in the US-Iraq war
• Embedded (album), a 2004 music album by Mark Seymour
• Embedded (Meathook Seed album), a 1993 album by industrial metal band Meathook Seed.
• Embedded, a song in the Job for a Cowboy album Genesis, which was released in 2007
• Embed Series, works by artist Mark Jenkins
• Embedded, a novel by Dan Abnett