Embedded, embedding, imbedded or imbedding may refer to:

Science and technology

Embedding, one instance of some mathematical object contained within another instance

• Graph embedding, in topological graph theory

• Embedded generation, of energy

• Embedding, a part of sample preparation for an electron microscope

Computing

• Embedded system, a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls

Embedding, installing media into a text document to form a compound document

• , a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) element that inserts a non-standard object into the HTML document

• Web embed, an element of a host web page that is substantially independent of the host page

• Font embedding, inclusion of font files inside an electronic document

Embedding (machine learning), a technique

• Word embedding, in natural language processing

• Vector embedding, representing concepts and information by reference to similar concepts, in a multi-dimensional space

Linguistics

• Embedded clause, that provides a sentence element with additional information

• Center embedding, recursive nesting of an element in the middle of a similar element

Arts and entertainment

• Embedded journalism, in a military conflict

• Embedded (play), a 2003 play by Tim Robbins about embedded journalists covering military conflict in the US-Iraq war

• Embedded (Mark Seymour album), 2004

• Embedded (Meathook Seed album), 1993

• "Embedded", a song by Job for a Cowboy from the 2007 album Genesis

• Embed Series, works by artist Mark Jenkins

• Embedded, a novel by Dan Abnett

• Embedded (film), a 2016 erotic political thriller film

• Embedded, a news podcast by NPR

• The Embedding, a 1973 science fiction novel by Ian Watson dealing with linguistics

Other uses

• Embeddedness, in economics and economic sociology

• Self-embedding, in psychology, an activity in which one pushes items into one's own flesh in order to feel pain