<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Fixed or snugly enclosed in a surrounding mass: The young turtles are weighed, measured, and tagged with an embedded microchip before being released back into the salt marsh.</li><li>Incorporated into something as an essential characteristic: In any cultural context, deeply embedded values and attitudes can be difficult to change.</li><li>Being or relating to a journalist assigned to travel with a military unit or political campaign: He was an embedded reporter with the First Marine Division during the invasion of Iraq.</li><li>Working closely with a group or participating in a special event as an invited expert, creative professional, etc.: As Radio 3’s first embedded composer, he is writing one new piece of music a week for the breakfast show.</li><li>Digital Technology: (of text, images, sound, or code) placed in a computer file, HTML document, software program, or electronic device: Click here or watch the embedded video below to learn more about the work of our Foundation.</li><li>Grammar: (of a construction, as a phrase or clause) inserted into a larger construction, as a clause or sentence: Informative texts often include unfamiliar technical vocabulary and complex sentences with embedded clauses.</li><li>Histology: (of biological tissue) infiltrated with melted paraffin or other such material that later solidifies, enabling the preparation to be sliced very thin for viewing under a microscope (sometimes used in combination): The fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues were cut into sections 5 μm thick and mounted on glass slides.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>The simple past tense and past participle of embed.</li></ul>