Immersion

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or an instance of immersing.
  • noun. The condition of being immersed.
  • noun. Baptism performed by totally submerging a person in water.
  • noun. The obscuring of a celestial body by another or by the shadow of another.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An antiquated term for the introduction of a solid substance into a liquid reagent in order to produce chemical change, as the calcination of tin by immersion in nitric acid.
  • noun. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking or dipping into a fluid.
  • noun. Specifically A mode of administering baptism by dipping or plunging the whole person into water.
  • noun. Figuratively, the act of overwhelming, or the state of being deeply engaged; absorption: as, immersion in scientific studies.
  • noun. In astronomy, the disappearance of a celestial body by passing either behind another or into its shadow: opposed to emersion.
  • noun. In microscopy, the placing of a drop of liquid, such as water, between the object-glass and the object.
  • noun. In ceramics, the application of the glaze to a piece of pottery by plunging it into a vessel filled with the glaze in a liquid state.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping.
  • noun. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, .
  • noun. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
  • noun. The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.
  • noun. a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
  • noun. the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
  • noun. an immersion heater
  • noun. a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. sinking until covered completely with water
  • noun. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
  • noun. complete attention; intense mental effort
  • noun. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
  • noun. the act of wetting something by submerging it
  • Word Usage
    "So, but, you know, the flip side of that -- and a lot of psychologists were talking about this -- is, one of the treatments to try and avoid PTSD is what they called immersion therapy."
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