What is the meaning of embedded?

verb

• Fix or set securely or deeply.
  • usage: "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
  • synonyms: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
• Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war.
  • usage: "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
  • synonyms: embed

adjective

• Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass.
  • usage: "found pebbles embedded in the silt"; "stone containing many embedded fossils"; "peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp"
• Inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole.
  • usage: "confused by the embedded Latin quotations"; "an embedded subordinate clause"