immersion
Meanings
Plural: immersions
Noun
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
- Deep engagement in something.
- An immersion heater.
- A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
- A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
Origin / Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Synonyms
absorption, concentration, dousing, ducking, engrossment, ingress, submergence, submerging, submersion
Scrabble Score: 13
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