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noun
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
Deep engagement in something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An immersion heater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Antonyms: emersion
noun
A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: education
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noun
One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
the act of wetting something by submerging it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: submersion, ducking, dousing
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Broader terms: wetting
noun
a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: baptism
Narrower terms: trine immersion
noun
complete attention; intense mental effort
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: concentration, engrossment, absorption
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: attention
Narrower terms: focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering, specialism, study
noun
(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ingress
Antonyms: emersion
Broader terms: disappearance
noun
sinking until covered completely with water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sinking
Narrower terms: dip
History
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).
Across languages
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
