---
tag: 00ZG9Y9TR4
kind: concept
name: Topological embedding
aliases: [embedding]
msc: [54C25]
sources:
  - url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding
    locator: General topology
same_as:
  wikidata: Q980509
  wikipedia: Embedding
---

## Summary

A topological embedding is a map that identifies a space with a subspace of another space, with the same topology.
It is a homeomorphism onto its image.