EGAVE

immersion

About 2.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism. Deep engagement in something.
  2. noun The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
  3. noun Deep engagement in something.
  4. noun An immersion heater.
  5. noun A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
  8. noun One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.

Similar words

dousing ducking submersion submergence submerging disposal dumping dump photomicrograph liquid

Often followed by

in of and is into objective programs lens for

Word family

immersions

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