immersion

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
3. (British, Ireland, countable, informal, uncountable) An immersion heater.
4. (countable, uncountable) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
5. (countable, uncountable) 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.
6. (countable, uncountable) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
7. (countable, uncountable) One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
8. (countable, uncountable) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.

Opposite of

emersion

Synonyms

submersion

submergence

absorption

submerging

baptism

dip

dipping

sinking

ingress

preoccupation

immerse

engrossment

dousing

bemusement

concentration

ducking

infusion

dunk

enhancement

flooding

flow depth

foundering

imbedding

draft

impregnate

infuse

impregnation pickling

absorbing

macerate

maceration

plunge

plunging

diving

settling

dive

soak

steep

steeping

deepening

bathing

bath

🛀

suction

being absorbed in

immergence

insuccation

Christian rite

subergence

sinking under water

submersien

going under

Translations

immersion

imersão

inmersión

immersione

immersió

onderdompeling

Eintauchen

Immersion

Vertiefung

concentration

absorbement

absorption

gänzliche Inanspruchnahme

Tiefgang

tirant d’eau

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈmɜːʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin immersiō, immersiōnem (“dipping”).