embedded

Definitions

Fixed firmly into a surrounding mass or object.

Incorporated as an essential or integral part of something else.

Assigned to work with a specific group, such as a journalist accompanying military troops.

Examples

The microchip was embedded deep within the device's circuitry.

The journalist spent months embedded with the troops to document their daily lives.

Synonyms

implanted ingrained rooted fixed inserted integrated entrenched

Antonyms

detached extracted removed superficial external loose unfixed