Embedding a curve in projective space

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In Hartshorne Chapter IV:

Corollary 3.6. Any curve can be embedded in $\mathbb{P}^3$.

What is the precise definition of embedding here.

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The author means a closed embedding, also called a closed immersion. So the precise statement is: given a curve $X$, there is a closed immersion $X \to \mathbb{P}^3$. (This is clear from the two propositions immediately preceding the corollary.)