 First-order embedded deformation

A first-order embedded deformation of a closed subscheme $Z\subseteq X$ is a closed subscheme $Z_{\epsilon }\subseteq X{\times }_k\mathrm{Spec}(k[\epsilon ]/({\epsilon }^2))$ flat over the dual numbers and with special fibre equal to the given embedded $Z$. It is a tangent vector of the Hilbert scheme, not a deformation modulo arbitrary automorphisms of the ambient scheme. These deformations are naturally the global sections of the normal sheaf.