immersion

Meaning

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

Frequency

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪˈmɜːʃən/
Etymology

In summary

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

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