Reference meaning
embedding
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The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
Other meanings
2. noun
A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
3. noun
An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
4. noun
A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
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