Definition of "embedding" in English

noun

1. The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

2. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.

3. (machine learning, artificial intelligence) 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